Bertha Dudde emeBooklet 127

Test all Things and keep whatis GoodPart 2

A selection of Revelations from God,received through the 'Inner Word'

by Bertha Dudde

Test all Things and keep what is GoodPart 2

is booklet contains a selection of Divine Revelations, received throughthe Inner Word by Bertha Dudde as promised by John 14.21: ``Whoeverhas My commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves Me. He who

loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I too will love him and showMyself to him.''

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e revelations are non-denominational, they do not intend to attractmembers of any Christian religious affiliation nor to recruit members into

any Christian religious affiliation.e only purpose of these revelations is to make God's Word accessible to

all people, as it is God's Will.

Only complete and unaltered messages with references may be copied andtranslated.

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Contents

BD 1134 Faith is the first condition for truth .... . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Scrutinising the truthfulness of the Holy Bible 2BD 2203 Book of Books .... Lamp without oil .... . . . . . . . . . . . 2BD 7103 Wrong interpretation of the Scriptures .... e working ofthe spirit .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4BD 8054 Is the Bible completed .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6BD 8963 Do the Gospels correspond to truth? .... . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Scrutinising revelations 10BD 4169 Divine revelations can be accepted without scrutiny ....Love .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10BD 8050 Doubting the transfer of pure truth .... . . . . . . . . . . . 11BD 8460 Two different kinds of revelations cannot be true .... . . . . 12BD 8724 Scrutinising the origin of a revelation .... . . . . . . . . . . 15

Scrutinising schools of thought 17BD 2091 Danger of accepting established traditions .... Examina-tion .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17BD 3328 Concord of spiritual results .... Truth .... . . . . . . . . . . 18BD 3366 New school of thought .... Human work .... . . . . . . . . . 20BD 4786 ere is only one truth .... Feeling of heart .... . . . . . . . 22BD 5546 Spiritual compulsion .... Doctrines .... Truth .... . . . . . . 23BD 8615 Wrong portrayal of God .... Error .... . . . . . . . . . . . . 25BD 8990 Various schools of thought .... ere is only one truth .... . 28

Scrutinising psychic communications 30

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BD 6468 Dangers of psychic communication .... . . . . . . . . . . . 30BD 8416 Difference between the `working of the spirit'and `psy-chic'receptions .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Scrutinising prophets 35BD 2566 False prophets .... Test the spirits .... . . . . . . . . . . . . 35BD 4675 ` at day and hour knoweth no man ....'False prophets ofthe last days .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36BD 5778 False Christ's and prophets .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37BD 7841 e adversary's disguise as a spirit of light .... Miracles? .... 38BD 8521 False Christ's and prophets .... Characteristic: Salvation .... 40

Scrutinising teachers and teaching material 42BD 2800 Professional missionaries .... Academic knowledge .... . . . 42BD 2894 Suitabili for scrutinising spiritual gi s .... . . . . . . . . . 44BD 4534 e right kind of teacher .... Truth - Error .... . . . . . . . . 45BD 4968 Test the spirits .... Satan's great power before the end ....Doubts .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47BD 5150 Whoever is taught by God requires no further externalknowledge .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49BD 6728 A teacher's du : to examine teaching material .... . . . . . 50BD 8037 Test all things and keep what is good .... . . . . . . . . . . 52BD 8783 A mediator's introspection .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Spreading the truth 56BD 2247 Recognising the truth is a du to advocate it .... . . . . . . 56BD 5808 Du of distribution .... Warning of unfamiliar knowledge.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57BD 8534 Holding on to misguided spiritual knowledge .... Desirefor truth .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59BD 8842 Study does not guarantee spiritual knowledge .... . . . . . 61BD 6676 `Test all things and keep what is good ....' . . . . . . . . . . 63

Who was Bertha Dudde? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

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BD 1134 received 12.10.1939

Faith is the first condition for truth ....

Regardless how conscientiously a person endeavours to know the truth, itscertain is not guaranteed as long as his striving is not based on profoundfaith. Without the latter, everything presented and accepted by people isinterspersed with error .... In contrast, the slightest thought in faith willalso result in purest truth. And then a person should pay attention to theabundance of thoughts flowing to him, if he, in faith of God, deliberateson any subject .... In a manner of speaking, he will be grasped and mostprofound knowledge will be imparted to him, and he can be assured that itwill be purest truth, for this is the fundamentally inherent way of thoughttransference that a person questioningly turns to the teaching enabledbeings when merely a thought desiring clarification arises in him. eonly way for a correct instruction is the questioning desire, which will beinstantly answered. Who is the only one to clari all things? Only thedivine Creator Himself, and He does this by giving the beings of serviceto Him the task of informing every living creation of what they desire toknow. Every person's train of thought is the result of a more or less strongwill for truth. For God Himself is the truth .... If a person desires the truthwith complete faith in God then he also desires God Himself. is desire ofthe person's spirit for God also establishes the connection with the divinespirit, and thus the spirit in the human being will be instructed by thedivine Spirit Itself and can therefore only receive purest truth .... However,where, vice versa, the same desire prevails but without faith in God, theDei cannot make contact with the person's indwelling spiritual spark andthus the adversary avails himself of the opportuni of transmitting his willto the person and leads him into error and wrong thinking. e inner linkwith God safeguards every communication .... anyone who calls upon God,opens his heart and listens to the answer will only be able to hear absolutetruth, for God is willing to give wherever a faithful heart requests divinegi s, and truth is always and forever a gi from above ....

Truth can only come from above but never arise from the abyss .... Andthus people are wise to consider the divine Lord in every question, for truthcan only be provided by the One Who is Truth in Himself .... And again,

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no earthly child will appeal for it in vain, since the Father in Heaven willalways guide His children into truth .... Hence the spiritually perfect beingsmust also manifest themselves as bearers of truth to those who want toreceive truth .... they must not encounter any opposition if they want toexpress themselves and this, in turn, requires profound faith in God again,in spiritual strength and their transfer of thoughts to the human being.Faith is therefore the first condition without which a truthful conveyanceof knowledge is unthinkable .... Once a person has found this simplestof solutions, whereby his correct thinking is guaranteed, he will neitherbe tormented by doubt nor downheartedly and hesitantly scrutinise suchtransmissions for their truth .... but he will unconditionally accept what thespirit imparts to him, since his attitude towards God assures him correctthinking a er all .... By comparison, a person who constantly longs forworldly things will not desire truth .... He instinctively feels that worldlypleasures and the fulfilment of cravings cannot be the purpose of earthlylife .... but does not want to admit to it, and thus he also shies away fromstrictly searching for truth in all aspects of life, and precisely this deliberateavoidance of truth results in the fact that the prince of lies gains power overhis soul. e eternal Dei can send little help to such a soul since the sameopposition will also result in the same evil influences again, because God,the eternal Truth Himself, wants to be acknowledged and therefore faith isthe first condition in order to attain the truth ....

Amen

Scrutinising the truthfulness of the Holy Bible

BD 2203 received 05.01.1942

Book of Books ....Lamp without oil ....

A lamp without oil is but an emp vessel which does not serve its purpose;it does not emit any light because it lacks the food which the light mustconstantly receive. Even the Holy Scripture must be judged as a mere bookas long as it has no true light-spreading effect, that is, as long as it doesnot result in spiritual enlightenment .... e Holy Scriptures can truly offer

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the most profound wisdom for someone who, with absolute faith and aGod-inclined heart, desires to draw wisdom from it, thus, as soon as thehuman being himself proves his hunger for light through this desire. enthe Book of Books will not merely be an emp vessel but become a sourceof light instead .... e human being's wisdom will increase because hedesires food for his spirit and this nourishment turns his inner light intoa bright flame whose radiance shines far and wide and can illuminate thedarkest night. e Word of God is blessed with His strength and thosewho may receive the Word from God directly will therefore also constantlybe permeated by God's strength. And this strength also flows to a personwho accepts the Word with the same depth of feeling where it is madeaccessible for all people, as long as he desires to accept divine wisdom, aslong as his one and only desire is light. For God will satis every hungerfor His Word, He will give where the desire is present. us, the heartmust long for spiritual nourishment, then it will be offered in the form ofknowledge, for every Word in the Holy Bible will then become clear tothe person and this knowledge will please and satis him. But how o endoes a person only read the written Word without allowing it to talk tohis heart .... how o en does he lack the sense and understanding for whathe reads because he fails to pray for the grace of understanding, and thenthe Book is of no greater value than any other book which merely servesthe purpose of passing time. But then the lamp is lacking oil, it is withoutlight and merely an emp vessel which fails to fulfil its purpose, for it doesnot emit light and therefore cannot illuminate a person's heart either. eWord of God comes to every person who desires it, for God Himself isthe Word, and He reveals Himself in the Word in many different ways toanyone who strives towards Him .... He gives him the truth mentally orbrings people together and speaks through them, or He addresses themthrough the Book of Books. But the willingness to receive the divine Wordmust always be present so that his desires can be granted. en the spirit ofGod will always be at work, regardless of how and where the human beingreceives the divine Word, because the spirit of God can only take effectwhen the human being's hunger for spiritual nourishment, for light, isevident. is also excludes all error, for even where the latter had occurredthrough human will, the spirit of God will so guide the person's thoughts

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that he understands it correctly and thus his knowledge will correspond tothe truth. en his knowledge will resemble a light which brightly shinesin all directions and sends its radiance into the darkness. And he may drawupon this knowledge at all times and everywhere .... e spirit of God isalways willing to distribute knowledge; wherever a heartfelt desire existsthe heart will be nourished, for it is God's will that the human hearts shallbecome brightly illuminated. It is His will that His Word shall not just beread or listened to on the surface but that it should penetrate deeply, sothat it will remain as spiritual knowledge and will be the soul's wealth ineterni one day ....

Amen

BD 7103 received 26.04.1958

Wrong interpretation of the Scriptures ....e working of the spirit ....

You humans o en interpret the Words of the Scriptures according toyour need .... e spiritual meaning of the Word does not correspond tothe aims and plans you pursue, and you interpret the letter which canhave various meanings. Consequently, many errors were spread amongpeople who nevertheless tenaciously hold on to them by always referringto passages in the Scriptures. It has become almost impossible to exposeand eradicate these errors, because the spiritual darkness keeps deepeningthe closer the end is approaching. Even so, precisely these errors are thecliffs which can cause people to fail, who strive to find the truth yet thenstart to doubt and finally use the same doubts to oppose everything writtenin the Book of Books .... If they are strict seekers of truth, then theywill find the truth, if only by different means than the usual, throughthe proclaimers of God's Word .... However, if they lack the necessaryearnestness for truth, they will easily be satisfied with those errors inorder to completely detach themselves from believing or from religiousdoctrines, which nevertheless can correspond to truth. is is the greatdanger inherent in every misguided teaching .... Wrong interpretation ofthe Scriptures can be assigned to the influence of God's adversary as well,for he also tries to instigate much confusion within the circles of people

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willing to believe, and, if he can exert his influence on their leader, hewill have succeeded in causing immense darkness. Many Words of theScriptures are indeed encrypted, that is, their meaning is not self-evidentto the human intellect, they can be differently interpreted and will only becorrectly interpreted when the person's spirit has awakened and wants toascertain their meaning. It is God's will that people should read every Wordwith complete sinceri , with the desire for truth and in contact with Him.... so that God Himself can speak to them, and then He will truly educateand enlighten them correctly. But since God's `supposed'representativesusually allow their intellect to speak first, since they study and ponderin order to discover the meaning of the Word, its spiritual meaning willremain concealed from them until they are in closest contact with God andappeal for His spirit .... And the spirit of God will instruct them correctly,but it will always reveal the same to people. No person should deem himselfcapable of understanding the Word of God by himself .... by merely usinghis intellect .... and no person should deem himself entitled to interpret itwithout God's support ....

No person ought to believe that performing formal prayers is sufficient inorder to ensure divine support for himself. God expects more .... He expectsa life of love which shapes the heart into a receiving vessel for the divinespirit, because He can only unite with `love', and because His spirit canonly take effect in a person who has shaped himself into love .... And fromthis it is evident again how an interpretation can be assessed in relation totruth .... Even the sharpest intellect is incapable of ascertaining the truthwhere a way of life makes it impossible for God's spirit to manifest itself,for the working of the spirit cannot be replaced by intellectual activi . Somany misguided teachings could not have been spread in the world hadthis basic rule always been observed that `thorns cannot yield any fruit....'And precisely those people who were great helpers for God's adversarydistinguished themselves most with interpretations and translations of theScriptures, although the results only revealed themselves at a later time,because they led to divisions and disputes and caused ever more confusion.And it is only possible to tackle such errors again with the pure truth fromGod, the transmission of which, therefore, also necessitates an awakenedspirit. But only people who live in love and offer the indwelling spirit the

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opportuni of igniting a light in people's heart will accept such corrections.... However, only the truth results in blessings .... Every error is an obstacleon the way of ascent. For this reason the pure truth should be proclaimedemphatically by those who receive it from God Himself. For this is the taskthey were given at the same time as they received the truth, because onlytruth is light and only truth leads to beatitude ....

Amen

BD 8054 received 03.12.1961

Is the Bible completed ....

How misguided you are to assume that with the Scriptures, the Book ofthe Fathers, My Word has come to an end .... that I Myself have set a limitin so far as that I now do not communicate anymore, that I do not speakto people any longer .... Who gives you the authori to make such anassumption? .... Who will deny Me to speak time and again as Father to Mychildren? Who gives you the right to make the assertion that the Bible issufficient on its own, that you humans need no other Word? ....

ose of you who reject every new revelation are still confined in thedarkness of spirit .... And in this darkness you will not understand theBible either, thus it is still a closed book for you because you do notunderstand the spiritual meaning of the letters, or you would also findthe references concerning My continuous revelations in this book and theworking of My spirit would be comprehensible to you .... But as long asyour spirit is still unenlightened you cannot grasp the meaning of the Wordwhich I Myself spoke to My disciples while I lived on earth .... You humanswould be unfortunate if you had to content yourselves with a book whichcan no longer be checked by you yourselves for changes in its contents ....if you were not repeatedly offered the pure truth from above as a guidingprinciple as to whether you yourselves are living in truth ....

ose of you who only accept the Book of the Fathers have not yet pen-etrated `the Word'yourselves, you have only read it intellectually but notallowed the spirit within you to speak, who instructs you and explains toyou the spiritual meaning of the Word .... You adhere to the letter and donot understand its meaning .... And when I Myself want to guide you into

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truth you deny My activi , and you suspect My servants of associatingwith My adversary .... you question My will and the power to speak tothose who devoutly offer their service to Me and who are thus also able tohear My voice within themselves ....

And you stubbornly hold on to your opinion that My Word is concludedwith the Scriptures, which you acknowledge as the only book throughwhich I have revealed Myself .... And that is your loss, because by rejectingMy Word from above you prove yourselves to be mere dead Christians,because living Christiani is an `activi of love', and this would result inyour spiritual enlightenment and thus also in an understanding for Myexceptional help in times of spiritual hardship ....

en you would also comprehend the Bible words, the promises, which IMyself gave to you and which point out that I will reveal Myself to thosewho keep My commandments .... So how do you intend to interpret Mypromises, if you deny every `New Revelation'? .... Do you want to call Mea liar when I announce My `comforter'to you who will `guide you intoevery truth ....'How do you understand these Words which have to cometo pass, because every promise I gave to people during My life on earthfulfils itself .... And why do you not want to believe? Because your spiritis arrogant, because you lack inner life, spiritual awakening, and thus youbelieve that you are able to determine and limit Me and My activi asit suits you .... But you are mistaken, even if you believe that you haveacquired knowledge through your studies which entitles you to reject MyWord from above .... You are spiritually arrogant and therefore you cannever receive a revelation from Me yourselves, because I only bestow Mygrace to the humble, and you are lacking this humili .... And thus you stillwalk in darkness, and you will not be able to penetrate it since you avoidthe light which could give you insight if you wanted to step into its radiance....

My love for My living beings will never end, and hence I will never fail tospeak to you humans wherever the conditions to do so are met. And MyWord will always sound in those who are of good will, to whom the Fathercan speak like to His children and who have a living faith in Me. And tothem I will give evidence of Myself, and My Own will recognise My voice

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because I can be present with them .... I can reveal Myself to them as I havepromised ....

Amen

BD 8963 received 15.04.1965

Do the Gospels correspond to truth? ....

e question occupying you is understandable if you wish to know thetruth. e fact that changes had occurred everywhere cannot be denied,because I do not exert force on a person's free will even if he himselfimplements changes, partly as a result of wrong translations, but partlyalso caused by the use of language which differs everywhere and alsopromotes various interpretations. Even the transcripts of the original textdiverge from each other were you to compare them, but they do not distortMy teaching, they describe My Words as I had spoken them, because theseWords of Mine are and will remain everlasting. But now you desire to knowwho has been instructed by Me to record My divine teaching of love, aswell as My way of life, and I can only reply to this that John .... My favouritedisciple .... had the direct order from Me and thus also complied withthis task. However, My disciple Matthew, having been likewise capable ofwriting, also le scripts behind in which he mentioned more factual events,hence he was an equally faithful servant, yet minor discrepancies occurredin his transcripts which, however, cannot be explained such that everyscribe saw the same events differently, instead, it concerns multiple events,for I have o en done the same. Even so, this Gospel is still hidden fromyou and was replaced by a disciple of the same name who was impelledby the spirit of God, just like the evangelists Luke and Mark, who onlyduring later years wrote down what they had heard about Me and My actof Salvation. You can rest assured that they were influenced by My spirit,otherwise they would never have attempted to tackled such work .... And itwill indeed be possible for every spiritually awakened person to recognisethese minor discrepancies, which had slipped in later, but he will alwaysbe able to keep to My direct Words, since I protect `My Word'from beingchanged. Admittedly, you can also interpret these Words of Mine wrongly,which indeed you have done, thereby giving the spoken Word a different

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meaning, but a spiritually awakened person will always recognise them asbeing wrong.

So if you know that you are allowed to unhesitatingly accept all Gospelsas being conveyed by My spirit, as long as you merely assign differentperiods of time to the process of the transfer, then the Gospel of John wasthe first one given by Me, because John more or less witnessed everythingand was therefore able to describe it in greatest detail. However, the otherGospels can also be unreservedly believed. For they do not contradict eachother, merely in the course of time minor changes have occurred which,however, are insignificant and recognisable. If the translators keep firmly tothe original text, if they don't change the words according to their linguisticusage, it can also be assumed that the Gospels will remain pure, but thelatter should be avoided because it can completely change the meaning.And even the `expositions'require an awakened spirit .... worldly studies,even if they are of a spiritual nature, are to no avail .... And time and againsuch `expositions'arise which deviate from correct thinking, and so manya passage exists which is purely interpreted in a human way, whereas itshould only be understood spiritually .... and this always ever concernspassages where clarifications were given .... On account of people's free willI cannot prevent this, nevertheless, wherever possible I protect the Word Ihave spoken during My life time on earth, so that those of you who wantto know the truth may find the right explanation .... For such questionswill only be asked by a seriously-minded person who is not satisfied withscriptures of unknown origin and whose questions only prove that he lovesthe pure truth and therefore also Me Myself, Who is the eternal Truth ....

Amen

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Scrutinising revelations

BD 4169 received 17.11.1947

Divine revelations can be accepted without scrutiny ....Love ....

A divine revelation should and must be taken seriously, otherwise therecipient is not worthy of it. Various possibilities to solve earthly problemscertainly exist, earthly things can be viewed from various angles, an earthlyproblem can be answered in different ways, depending on the human be-ing's attitude, however, in a spiritual respect there is only one truth, there isonly one solution, and this solution is given by God Himself to those whodesire it and are worthy of it. And despite the worthiness, the transmis-sion of truth through revelations of the spirit is a very special grace whichmust be acknowledged, just as that which God imparts to people throughrevelations is beyond all doubt and may therefore be accepted without anyexamination. And, indeed, as soon as God Himself is acknowledged as thesource of spiritual revelations his communications are no longer doubted.Yet it is precisely the source of spiritual revelation that is frequently ques-tioned, and then the human being will not be entirely convinced that thecontent corresponds to the truth. However, the Word speaks for itself, andit speaks in a language which can certainly be understood by all thosewho live a life of love .... Kind-hearted people, who develop increasinglyhigher, can also affirm the content of the proclamations, for they graspthe truth and are on the right track with their thoughts, nothing will seemimplausible to them, instead, they accept every Word and arrange their lifeaccordingly. Yet a person who lacks love will find it more difficult to believeunconditionally. God's working is incomprehensible to them, and neithercan they completely appreciate the content, for love is the key to truth, loveis indispensable if the human being wants to penetrate the truth throughhis acceptance of divine revelations. ey can only be advised to practiseacting with love, for only through this they will understand everything anddisperse every doubt. rough love he will make contact with God and cansubsequently also be instructed by God Himself. en he will know thetruth, he will be allowed to receive profound knowledge, it will be easy for

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him to believe, since the truth speaks for itself, and the Word of God willalways be pure and unadulterated truth, because it originates from the OneWho is the eternal Truth Himself ....

Amen

BD 8050 received 28.11.1961

Doubting the transfer of pure truth ....

Anyone who wants to fulfil My will, will also only ever work according toMy will. Nevertheless, it is a matter of sincere resolve, for I Am not satisfiedwith words which do not arise from the heart, which are only voicedby the mouth or which flow forth from the intellect .... For the will mustutterly belong to Me, then the human being will have completely submittedhimself to My will and will no longer be able to think and want anythingother than that which corresponds to My will. However, the adversary willalways attempt to gain this will of yours for himself, he will constantlytry to tempt you anew by means of the world, he will try to loosen yourbond with Me, in which case there is a risk that he will intervene in yourthoughts .... which, however, will impel Me to send My angels so thatthey will build a wall around you, so that they will mentally influence youand assuredly push him aside because your innermost intention applies toMe. I Am aware of every human being's attitude and therefore also knowwho so totally hands himself over to Me so that I can trust him with anextraordinarily important task in the end time: to accept the truth from Meand to spread it .... Truth can only come forth from Me, and it can onlybe conveyed into pure vessels, because everything of an impure naturewould prevent the working of My spirit in the person and because thetruth from Me can only be conveyed through My spirit to earth. erefore,understand that the receiving vessel must be clean and that the humanbeing must voluntarily be willing to be of service to Me .... Don't youbelieve that it is possible for Me to recognise a person's state of soul andto know who is capable of such a task? Do you think I would arbitrarilywork in a person who cannot show the preconditions which make thetransfer of the pure truth from above possible? If it is My will to bringthe truth to you humans because you urgently require it, should it not be

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possible for Me to choose an appropriate tool which serves Me accordingto My will? Why do you deny Me the power to protect this tool fromerror? A tool to which I assign the task to receive the pure truth from Meand to spread it? .... Do you think I would keep urgently calling for thespreading of that which is conveyed from above to earth were it not theguaranteed pure truth which My last disciples shall carry into the world?

e fact that people I have not chosen also appoint themselves makes yourobjections understandable; nevertheless, you should make clear whom youaccept as true `Word recipients'.... Indeed, you are entitled to conduct thisexamination if you carry it out with My support solely with the intentionof serving the pure truth .... In that case, however, you will also recognisethe true tools I have chosen for Myself, for anyone who desires the truthmay receive it, he will identi where the truth is which originates fromMe. Yet don't believe that you can accuse every tool of `influx of error', forevery such suspicion merely proves to Me that you doubt My love, wisdomor power .... Have I Myself not given you the promise to `guide you intotruth ....'And should that not be possible for Me in your opinion?! WhenI recognise the necessi to convey the pure truth to humani , then I alsotruly know the right ways and means, and I know the right hearts whichcompletely hand themselves over to Me and My will, which I can choose forthis task of being mediators between Me and people .... so that those whodesire light shall become enlightened. Believe that everything is possiblefor Me .... Believe that Love wants to help you come out of darkness intolight, and believe that I know how this can happen .... and accept withcomplete faith what you are offered by My love, wisdom and power ....

Amen

BD 8460 received 06.04.1963

Two different kinds of revelations cannot be true ....

I cannot make concessions where it concerns the transmission of the puretruth. Understand that only one truth can and does exist and that thiscomes forth from Me, since I alone know everything and therefore onlyI can convey the knowledge to those who possess a profound desire fortruth and make heartfelt contact with Me, who thus make themselves

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worthy and suitable to receive bright light. And neither will I speak topeople with two tongues by teaching different things to different people ....For truth is eternally unchanging and will not allow previously misguidedhuman thinking to impose limitations on it either. I will always provideyou humans with clarification if you have fallen prey to such mistakes. Andtherefore I must criticise where My adversary has already prevailed, and Imust openly highlight misguided mental concepts .... And I will do so assoon as divine revelations are conveyed to Earth .... For only because oftheir complete concurrence will you be able to scrutinise the origin of suchrevelations yourselves. But it would also utterly contradict My wisdomwere I to instruct people differently, by adapting My instructions to theirhitherto thinking, if it is wrong .... e truth must uncompromisinglyexpose misconceptions, because only the truth will benefit the soul, becauseonly the truth is the path leading to Me. And people who are closelyconnected with Me through love will always be gladdened by the pure truthand willingly forego misconceptions .... Hence, a caring person will feelimpressed by the truth and easily recognise that he was hitherto wronglyinstructed .... For the error .... that is, My adversary .... is unable to holdsomeone captive who hands himself over to Me, he will therefore easilybe able to let go of wrong thoughts and unhesitatingly accept the truth.But what is one to think of revelations which obviously keep within suchhumanly established limitations?

I certainly want to convey My Word to all places, I want to reveal Myselfto all people, but in order to do so I need completely emp vessels ....people who are not so entrenched in wrong concepts that they do notvoluntarily relinquish or doubt them .... If I want to reveal Myself toa person then his doubts that he is in possession of truth must impelhim toward Me, requesting that I grant him spiritual enlightenment ....Only then will I be able to enlighten him, but never as long as he is stillbound and unable to inwardly release himself from misguided teachings.... My revelations require an emp vessel which I can subsequently fill ....And then I will clearly emphasise that which does not correspond to thepure truth from Me .... For I cannot utter two different kinds of spiritualknowledge and will not veil anything, but instead disclose everything,because you humans are in need of light in order to find and travel the right

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path to return to Me into the Father's house. Hence, whatever concurs hasbeen conveyed to you humans by Me, once the prerequisites exist whichallow for My revelations .... And if contradictions are found then you mustbe cautious and seriously scrutinise them, for I Myself cannot make anyconcessions which contradict the truth. Yet I want to win all people overbefore the end, and therefore I also want to show the right path to thosewho are still being misguided, and truly, anyone who completely devoteshimself to Me will receive clarification, and he will find his way out froma thicket which is inextricable for the half-hearted and indifferent person.... My adversary has so much control over people that he has turned theminto fanatics who no longer allow anything else .... be they members ofecclesiastical organisations or sects or of the various schools of thought ....It is precisely the fact that they are incorrigible when My messengers wantto inform them of the pure truth, that demonstrates their bond with himwho does not allow clear thoughts to arise in them, but instead impelsthem to fanatically advocate misguided teachings .... And then it will bedifficult to win them over to the pure truth .... even those of good will allowthemselves to be deceived because the adversary appears by the same tokenand is determined to make people spread wrong spiritual knowledge asdivine activi .... yet I will always protect those people from believing itwho fully consciously hand themselves over to Me and only ever appealto Me for the truth .... Even so, all of you should be on your guard, forthe adversary has many tricks at his disposal in order to hold on to hisfollowers, and he will fight the truth until the end, until I Myself put a stopto his working and place him in chains again because the time of the endhas arrived ....

Amen

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BD 8724 received 13.01.1964

Scrutinising the origin of a revelation ....

Time and again I will ensure that the truth is granted to you as long as youmerely desire it. You can receive a wealth of knowledge, as I have promised,yet you must give occasion to it yourselves by requesting it from the OneWho alone can distribute the truth, for you cannot gain realisation againstyour will. And only truth enables you to attain the state of realisation,the possession of true knowledge .... If error is offered to you, then youmust recognise it first before you reject it, and this also involves your sinceredesire for truth. However, it is very difficult to recognise the error in a worldof darkness, in My adversary's sphere who takes action against all light ....And yet, it is possible for someone who strives towards Me consciously,who recognises a purpose of existence in his life on earth and desires anexplanation about everything, for he will take the path to Me, Whom herecognises as the origin of himself, as Creator of everything visible to him.

us he establishes the connection with Me through questioning thoughtsand thereby is on the right path to truth, which only comes forth from Me,the Eternal Truth Itself .... Dense darkness has been spread across Earth byMy adversary's activi , people's thoughts are totally confused and neithercan they find their way through the darkness if they don't receive truthfulexplanations for everything. Wrong thinking however .... error .... resultsin the fact that people don't grasp the meaning of their life and thus donot comply with their task on earth so that, at the end of their earthlyexistence, they will have made no psychological progress whatsoever. It isMy adversary's intention that they shall not find and take the path to Meand to eternal life. You humans have no idea how much harm you do toyour soul if it lives in error, if it does not recognise Me correctly, if it holds acompletely wrong concept about My nature and therefore cannot love Me.... which, however, is necessary in order to join Me again ....

And so I will convey the pure truth to you over and over again and onlyrequire your free will to take possession of the truth. is forms the basisfor My revelations which are repeatedly conveyed to Earth because youhuman are in urgent need of them .... e Book of the Fathers has lost itssignificance to you, it certainly also contains truth but must be read with an

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enlightened spirit in order to be recognised as truth .... And since the end isimminent I provide you with clarification in the most comprehensive andsimple way. I no longer speak to you in metaphors but reveal everythingwhich, until now, seemed incomprehensible and veiled to you, for I knowthat there is not much time le and you should make good use of this shorttime. You should draw the strength from the pure and unadulterated truthcoming directly from Me to work at improving yourselves and attain suchfirm faith that you will persevere until the end, that you will prevail in thefinal battle of faith, but only the truth will facilitate this, which shows youyour relationship with Me so that you will hand yourselves over to Me withabsolute trust, so that you, like children, will take refuge in your Fatherand He will draw you to Himself with loving mercy. Hence, I transmit MyWord to Earth, which guarantees you purest truth because without truthyou cannot become blissfully happy .... Nevertheless, you humans willalways dispute amongst each other as to who has the truth, and everyonewill want to claim this right for himself, despite the fact that everyoneendorses different spiritual knowledge .... For this reason the origin of thespiritual knowledge will have to be established .... Intellectually acquiredknowledge has not originated from Me, for I only express Myself throughthe spirit which rests in every person's heart, which needs to be ignited andthus makes contact with the eternal Father-Spirit .... Who will then guidethe human being into truth, as I have proclaimed. And only knowledgewhich can show this origin will correspond to the pure truth, it will leadyou humans towards beatitude if you desire and accept it of your own freewill and thereby make direct contact with Me with a request to teach youeverything you need to know. Nevertheless, you can rest assured that I willnever fail to enlighten you humans and to impart pure truth upon you,because I know the danger you are in when you walk through the densedarkness, since every misguided teaching is darkness for your soul. enyou are still controlled by the prince of darkness, who will do whatever ittakes in order to withhold the truth from you because he knows that he willlose you as soon as you learn to recognise and love Me as a result of thetruth .... For then you will strive towards Me consciously and I will embraceyou and never ever let you go again ....

Amen

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Scrutinising schools of thought

BD 2091 received 30.09.1941

Danger of accepting established traditions ....Examination ....

It is incomprehensible when a person supports a traditionally adoptedteaching which would barely stand up to serious scrutiny. Only someonehungry for truth scrutinises every teaching and will indeed be successfulinsofar as that he will be able to differentiate between misguided teachingsand the truth and correspondingly decide for or against existing doctrines.He will accept what he recognises as truth and retain it as a preciouspossession. But he will also disassociate himself easily from that whichseems untrue to him, he will consider it worthless and thus he will nothesitate to give it up, to reject it. And only then will he value the doctrineand be imbued by it. And since it came alive in him he will stand up for thisteaching, whereas traditionally adopted teachings are lifeless possessions,for they are accepted and kept due to some sense of du . e persondare not voice his own opinion and strictly adheres to the teaching peopleimparted to him. Such a doctrine cannot lead to spiritual maturi in aperson, for only that which he recognises as truth refines his nature. But inorder to recognise the truth of a teaching the person must weigh up all prosand cons. If this is his serious will, he will recognise the truth and his workwill begin .... to enlighten his fellow human beings as well. However, aperson can only endorse that teaching which he himself regards to be true.Hence he must have examined it first before he can pass a teaching on. Acertain sign of the value of a teaching is when it can be imparted to a fellowhuman being with complete confidence. If a person is so penetrated by itthat he is capable of imparting a teaching understandably and acceptablythen it can also be assumed that he has seriously examined it himself,for he cannot explain something that is still unclear to him, nor would itstand up to serious scrutiny and would therefore be discarded by himselfas worthless. us, when it is being discussed, the battle of words willbe won by that person who had formed an opinion about a doctrine andthought about it himself. He will find it easy to inform his fellow human

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being because he will have mastered the content of what he wants to passon, whereas an adopted doctrine becomes more a game of words, becauseit cannot stand up to closer inspection and is therefore not suitable to bepassed on. In that case people can only ever adhere to the wording of ateaching; however, the meaning of the wording causes confusion amongpeople, just as, vice versa, the imparting of a teaching which was recognisedto be true will lead to bright light and realisation in a fellow human being.

is is why the acceptance of traditional religious doctrines must be warnedagainst time and again, for they offer little or nothing at all to people. Butsomething that should make people happy must be equally acceptable forall people, provided they are permeated by the desire for truth and see init a mission to pass on what is imparted to them. ey are fully capableof differentiating between truth and lies, thus a thoughtless acceptance ofestablished traditions will be out of the question ....

Amen

BD 3328 received 13.11.1944

Concord of spiritual results ....Truth ....

e thoughts and words of all those who are enlightened by the spiritof God will be in complete concord, for they are all educated by God'sspirit and can endorse the same truth, because they received the latter fromGod through His spirit. But the concord of thoughts does not depend onpeople belonging to the same school of faith, they need merely spirituallybe on the same path, i.e., their life must correspond to God's will byactively practising neighbourly love. is awakens the indwelling spiritto life which can subsequently instruct them, that is, guide them intotruth. But people who are spiritually awakened by the spirit of God willmostly pursue different goals than those which are generally required byecclesiastical organisations. ey will not keep to external formalities somuch but make the heart of the matter, Christ's teaching of love, theirguiding principle of life, hence, they will live their life according to thisteaching of love, although in their obedience to the church they belong to,they also fulfil its laws. But the fulfilment of ecclesiastical commandments

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does not help them to become spiritually awake, only the fulfilment of thedivine commandments, which require love, does that, this is why someonenot belonging to an external church communi but living a life of lovecan also be spiritually enlightened. For he belongs to the church of Christ,which comprises the communi of believers, to the church which wasfounded by Christ with the Words ` ou art Peter, and upon this rock Iwill build My church ....' is communi of believers can be composed ofthe most varied ecclesiastical organisations, for there will be truly devoutpeople who practise love in each one and in whom the spirit of God canwork. But they will be of like mind, they will endorse the same directionof thought, muster the same understanding for spiritual problems, strivetowards the same goal, because the spirit of God guides them into truth, andthis can never contradict itself. And the hallmark, the characteristic of thechurch of Christ, rests in the fact that all members are of like mind, but thatthey do not advocate externally acquired spiritual knowledge impartedto them by fellow human beings; instead, they have received the truththemselves from within, for even externally imparted mental informationmust first become a person's possession through the working of the spiritbefore he can endorse it. However, earthly ecclesiastical organisationsdemand unconditional acceptance of teachings which were conveyed tothem from external sources; they devise a code of belief the rejection ofwhich they portray as sin, thus people are not permitted to voice anyopinion.

is is not faith .... it is not spiritually attained mental knowledge, whichcan be endorsed with full conviction if the person has not formed an earnestopinion of it first. e spirit of God can therefore not work in those people,since due to their lack of serious deliberation they do not provide it withthe opportuni to answer their questions, to instruct them and to correcterrors .... Hence the working of God's spirit is made impossible; it cannotexpress itself because it is not approached for an explanation. erefore,such people will also agree in their opinions and thoughts, nevertheless,they only dutifully repeat what is demanded of them but do not upholdpersonally gained thoughts which were born in them of their profounddesire for pure truth .... us it is not their own mental knowledge but isadopted from other people and therefore not their own spiritual spark's

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working .... Yet the working of the divine spirit is also credited to resultswhich are far removed from truth, because people have no idea when andwhere the spirit of God is able to work .... because they associate the workingof the spirit with a person of reputable position or distinction .... e spiritof God works wherever He wants .... but only where a heart willing andcapable of love allows for this working, where God's prerequisites arefulfilled in order to be able to impart the pure truth to people through Hisspirit .... And these prerequisites can be fulfilled by all people, irrespectiveof which school of thought they belong to and what position they hold onearth .... Consequently, the truth can only be found where the spirit of Godis at work, but it will always concur. As soon as different spiritual resultsand thoughts emerge, this cannot be considered the working of the spirit,and then there must be an investigation into where the preconditions hadbeen disregarded. For the spirit of God always instructs people in the sametruth, which is eternal and unchanging .... but which will, time and again,be conveyed to earth in puri where people, through a selfless life of love,awaken their spirit, which will then instruct them from within ....

Amen

BD 3366 received 13.12.1944

New school of thought ....Human work ....

It will be the object of those who no longer recognise God, due to theirheartless way of life, to coerce people into a completely new school ofthought. ey reject the old belief and will try to replace it with newteachings, their intention will be to confuse people's thought by seekingto disprove everything and, through objections, will awaken their doubtsin order to introduce them to the new school of thought, to recruit themfor it with guile and force. Because they do not shy away from achievingtheir aim by unfair means, they will rigorously proceed against people whoremain faithful to their old belief and honour those who do their will andpromote the spreading of the new teaching. ese teachings are the work ofhuman beings, they incorporate neither wisdom nor love; the aim of theseteachings is to de-spiritualise people, to make people get the wrong idea

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about the purpose of earthly life, they do not originate from the spiritualrealm but deny all spiritual concepts and only accept worldly goals.

And these teachings are offered to people in such a way that no onemay evade their influence, that daily life will more or less depend on theacceptance of these teachings so that people will have to make the seriousdecision to accept or reject them. is school of thought will find approvaleverywhere because it takes people's worldly attitude into account which isthe key factor for most people, because humani is becoming increasinglymaterialistic and has completely turned away from the spiritual kingdom.

ey accept what they are given by people but do not recognise spiritualgi s as such, they laugh at or mock God's Word and reject any truthfulexplanation.

On the other hand, human structures and human ideas, which heartlesspeople are trying to spread, meet the approval of most, and thus a schoolof thought will evolve which completely contradicts the pure truth. is isa school of thought which has nothing in common with Christ's teachingsince Christ's teaching of love will be frowned upon. Since love is not taughtfirst and foremost it will grow cold and wisdom, which is unthinkablewithout love, will also come to an end. People's thoughts will be ever moremisguided, fewer and fewer people will take refuge in God as the sourceof all wisdom and it won't be possible, therefore, to give the pure truth tothem anymore either. Nor will the truth be recognised any longer whileerror will assert itself, since humani will no longer be able to distinguishtruth from error due to its heartlessness. And thus it will allow itself to beencouraged and descend ever deeper into a state of ignorance. ere willbe spiritual darkness for humani and no one will want to see the light.... And for this reason the adversary will have an easy time .... e battleagainst faith will be carried out on all levels of socie since unkindnessdominates everywhere and prevents people's perception. However, humanwork will not last .... It will disintegrate, like everything that is not ofGod, a er it has triggered an enormous chaos, because these things do notsurvive for long and will therefore be eliminated by God Himself when thetime for the end has come ....

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BD 4786 received 23.11.1949

ere is only one truth ....Feeling of heart ....

You are certainly free to join any school of thought, yet you must alwaysremember that there is only one truth, that, because different schools ofthought also teach different doctrines, only one can be true, thereforean examination should never be avoided, which anyone can carry out ifhe earnestly wants to. Truth is guaranteed where divine revelations areconveyed to earth; therefore they can always be used for comparison. Andtruth only exists where it agrees with the teachings of the divinely impartedWord. However, if a direct revelation is not available for comparison, thenit is absolutely essential to appeal to God for assistance, in which case thehuman being will surely make the right decision, that is, he will eitherdecide or reject what he is du bound to believe by a school of thought ....Sincere desire to know the truth and a prayer to God in spirit and in truthassures him that he will correctly recognise what is truth and what is error.And his heart will either encourage or warn him against joining a school ofthought, but he must also pay attention to his feeling and not act againstit. No spiritual organisation on earth is devoid of error, because the puretruth, which originally motivated the founder to advocate it and to winfellow human beings over, will be changed by people time and again. isis why every seeker in all schools of thought will experience doubts, and forgood reason, so that he will pursue the truth himself, and, through earnestdeliberation and in connection with God through prayer and kind-heartedactivi , awaken the spirit in him, which will then instruct him truthfullyand guide him into true knowledge. A person can therefore find the truthin any spiritual movement providing he genuinely wants it. A blind personneeds to entrust himself to someone sighted, and since only God can seethey must be a spiritually awakened leader instructed by God, who canoffer true support to the blind, who will guide him and also help him gainhis vision if it is wanted by the blind himself. However, a blind leader willnot be very beneficial; he will also lead everyone entrusted to him astrayas long as he has not gained the abili to see of his own will. But a personwho has not drawn his wisdom from divine revelations is a blind leader ....a blind leader is someone who has received his knowledge from likewise

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poorly sighted people again and thereby did not become enlightened buttravels his path in the same darkness as before. God takes care of everyonewho desires truth. Lack of knowledge, error and a dark spiritual state canonly be found where the desire for truth does not exist because this is theprerequisite for God, as the Giver of truth and as the eternal Truth Himself,revealing Himself to a person, for anyone who desires it will be offered thetruth ....

Amen

BD 5546 received 02.12.1952

Spiritual compulsion ....Doctrines ....Truth ....

Spiritual freedom must be maintained, the human being may not be forcedto think in this or that direction, he must remain at liber to join any schoolof thought, only then will My will be complied with, for it concerns the freedecision of will, which every person must make by himself without havingbeen influenced in a compelling way. For this reason I will never eversanction compulsory faith which expresses itself through dogma, whichinhibits people's thinking and denies them any possibili of testing andof choosing .... ereby the human being is impelled to think in a specificway and comes to completely wrong conclusions if the preconditions arewrong .... He can hardly find the truth which is only gained by a personwho seriously desires it. e truth is made accessible to a person in earthlylife because he is capable of thinking and only his will makes the decisionas to whether he thinks correctly. He might well think correctly but hemust always be active himself, that is, he must form his own opinion abouteverything that is presented to him from outside, and that requires his ownintellectual activi and, even more importantly, his desire for truth, i.e. thewill only to accept the right information. is will is absolutely respectedby Me, it is always complied with because I, being Truth Itself, also wantto make Myself accessible to My living creations. But I can never conveythe truth to a person who does not want it, who only ever accepts what hereceives from external sources. Every person must examine for himself, for

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error might just as well have been presented to him as truth, and the personis responsible for what he decides to accept. It is a mistaken objection tosay that the majori of people are incapable of scrutiny .... e intellectalone is not decisive but the will to think correctly certainly is, in which casethe person's intellect will also form a positive or negative opinion, becauseI Myself will intervene if he desires to know the truth. By comparison,highly developed intellectual thinking can easily fall prey to error if onlythe intellect is inclined towards the pure truth without involving the heartand will ....

Consequently, it is wrong to accept knowledge without examining it, toacknowledge teachings and to decide on a spiritual direction withoutscrutiny .... which already follows from the fact that not only one schoolof thought exists, but that ever new offshoots veri that an examinationmust take place as to which school of thought the truth can be found in.For every advocate of his school of thought has used his intellect to chooseit but has no guarantee that it is the truth if he does not seriously deliberateon it and calls upon Me for support through My spirit .... Anyone whochooses this path can be certain that the pure truth will be conveyed tohim, and he will also be able to endorse it as such with inner conviction.However, every individual soul is responsible for its decision, and theresult will be according to its will .... But as long as people are pushedinto a specific direction of thought, as long as individuals deem themselvescalled to present knowledge to their fellow human beings which they wantto be accepted as truth but which they would reject themselves were theyseriously to examine it .... so long people will be in a dreadful state, foronly truth helps the souls to mature fully, they can only find their way toMe through truth and only through truth can they be released from sinand its consequences, for the truth comes from Me and leads back to Meagain. But that which is not from Me, that which can be recognised as errorwith proper scrutiny, comes from My adversary, and he will really not helpyou to gain beatitude, he will not guide you to Me, he will try to push youaside, to darken your spirit and to make you dependent on him .... Onlytruth will make you happy, and you will only receive the truth if you appealto Me Myself for it, if you are serious about receiving the truth from Me.... But this always presupposes your own action and no-one can bear the

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responsibili for you, no-one can relieve you of the decision which youmust make yourselves for the sake for your soul's salvation ....

Amen

BD 8615 received 13.09.1963

Wrong portrayal of God ....Error ....

Many misconceptions are widespread in the world and people do nothingin order to gain the pure truth, they are indifferent towards everythingwhich is, a er all, the most important thing in earthly life: to informthemselves about the spiritual kingdom, about their God and Creator andHis will ..... And even though I mentally influence them time and again,the truth cannot penetrate the error since, due to the misconception, Icannot be recognised as a supremely perfect Being, and I Am usuallyportrayed to people as a punishing Judge, as a God of wrath, who merelyhas vengeance in store for everyone because they are sinful. As a result,they don't strive for such a God either and a distance remains between Meand the human race which should, in fact, be reduced in earthly life andfinally completely disappear. And everything I send upon the human racethrough providence to make them think and turn to Me is more likely tobe regarded as evidence that no God exists, for they are unable to reconcilea God of love with the fact that people must suffer. ey are unable torecognise Him because they are instructed entirely wrongly, because theydon't know the reason for their human existence and the purpose of theirlife on earth as human beings. ey could certainly be taught correctly butthey won't accept anything because they still harbour an inner resistanceagainst Me as long as they don't practise love .... Love, however, has growncold, people are governed by selfish love and therefore by the one whoinstilled this love in them, who is and will continue to be My adversaryfor an infinitely long time. Consequently, only error will come forth fromhim, whereas I will convey the truth to people .... Yet the human beingalways determines for himself as to whether he accepts error or truth ....neither My adversary nor I will exert force on him. But because of thehuman being's immature nature My adversary will be far more successful,

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particularly during the last days before the end, when error will dominateand the truth will only be accepted by a few people. For many schools ofthoughts and ecclesiastical organisations openly endorse the error as truth.... whilst the followers of the truth will only be those people whose will isseriously inclined towards their God and Creator and who, as a result ofthis will, enter into contact with Me and receive the truth from Me Myself.As long as people still doubt My greater than great love, wisdom and might,they will not know the truth as yet.

us, misguided teachings originate from My adversary and he will alwaysportray My nature in a distorted way in order to prevent people from lovingMe .... He will describe Me to people as a being which must be feared, andthey will never strive for and hand themselves over to such a being. But allI want is My living creations'love, therefore I must convey the pure truthto them, in which they can also recognise Me as a supremely perfect BeingWhom they will then love in return. Error leads people into completelywrong thinking .... For it is a most blatant error if they are told that Idemand practices and rituals from them, that they can thereby acquirebeatitude, because people are never assessed by Me according to theirfulfilment of earthly decreed commandments, instead, only love is of valuebefore My eyes. And this love, which I Myself taught when I lived on earth,is certainly taught as well but it is not emphasised as so important, or thosewho believe that they live according to My will would practise it more. Forcountless people conscientiously comply with their religious duties and yetlive a life without love .... is should make all of you think, the fact thatthese people are subject to great misconception against which the truthcan hardly prevail, for they will not let go of their error which they could,however, recognise as error if they first fulfilled the commandments oflove, for then they would become enlightened, because love would kindlea light in them. However, were these commandments of Mine fulfilled firstand foremost, there would truly not be so much misery in the world, as canbe recognised by every person, no hatred and enmi would exist betweennations, it would be calm and peaceful, because this is the result of a lifeof love .... Instead, the whole world is in turmoil and clearly controlled bySatan which, in turn, is the evidence that the error is spread throughout thewhole world and that the truth finds little acceptance with people, for the

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error is officially acknowledged and endorsed as truth .... Only love aloneincorporates truth, everything else which is endorsed as being importantyet does not include love can only be error, because it comes from Myadversary who will always keep people from loving activi so that they willnot recognise the truth, so that they will be unable to recognise Me Myselfand offer Me love, which simultaneously signifies their release from him.Believe it, you humans, that spiritual darkness is spread across you, thatyour thinking was led astray, and accept the pure truth when it is offered toyou by My messengers, as they impart spiritual knowledge to you whichoriginated from Me Myself and which will kindle a bright light in you,because in the truth you will recognise Me and My nature and the love,which unites you with Me again, will flare up in you. Just test everythingthat is given to you as truth as to whether it will stimulate you to belovingly active, and accept that .... But don't waste your time with externalpractices and rituals which cannot be regarded as loving activi and whichare therefore also completely worthless for your soul, for I take no noticeof such conduct, I only take notice of what love impels you to do, for thisalone benefits your soul for eterni .... Just contemplate the state of theworld, how all of people's intentions and thoughts are purely concernedwith earthly possessions. But the only purpose for your existence on earthis to prepare yourselves for the spiritual kingdom .... Hence your thinkingmust be going in the wrong direction, and this is My adversary's doing.And therefore, as long as you live wrongly, your thinking is misguided; youare far removed from the truth .... consequently, I will try to convey thetruth to you time and again .... and blessed it he who accepts it when it isoffered to him ....

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BD 8990 received 06.06.1965

Various schools of thought ....ere is only one truth ....

In every school of thought you will find something that corresponds totruth, yet you will encounter far more misguided points of view andtherefore you must examine everything and establish its origin .... noteverything can be endorsed as truth. e vast number of existing differentschools of thought all deviate from each other. And this alone should makeyou think, for there is only one truth and this originates from Me directly.Pure truth, however, will only ever be gained through the working of thespirit in the human being, for this reason it is imperative to establish firstwhere My spirit was able to take effect and thus also has taken effect.

en the contents must concur with My direct message from above ....But who can claim to have the working of My spirit in him? Who hasthe guarantee that pure truth is received by him and conveyed to him?

is question is clearly answered to you: Anyone who, without havingany previous knowledge, attains knowledge from within himself about Myeternal plan of Salvation, about the meaning and purpose of his existence,about My reign and activi throughout the whole of infini , anyone whocan substantiate everything and knows all correlations .... is enlightenedby My spirit, and his knowledge corresponds to the full truth againstwhich the contents of every spiritual movement must be examined, andevery teaching which contradicts this knowledge can be rejected .... iscertainly provides you with the opportuni to subject the knowledge youhave attained until now to scrutiny, but who makes use of this indication inorder to take possession of the pure truth himself?! Each school of thoughtrefuses to let go of its own point of view, and thus a vast number of erroneousteachings were able to slip in through My adversary's influence, althoughevery spiritual movement contains a grain of truth as well. However, theyall agree not to accept anything which really is the truth! .... For preciselythis process of the `working of the spirit in the human being'is alien to allschools of thought, and so only rarely do people believe that I make Myselfknown to anyone who fulfils the conditions I attached to it. is conditionrequires the human being to live a life of love, because love unites himwith Me and, as a result, I Myself can speak to him .... is condition could

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be met by any human being and he, too, would know the truth and thinkcorrectly. And all those who comply with My easy commandment will alsobe convinced that the truth is conveyed to them when they receive suchgained knowledge through `the working of the spirit'. Yet their number issmall precisely because people lack love .... Consequently, being membersof any kind of spiritual movement will not benefit you if you diligentlyadvocate its teachings .... you are nevertheless spiritually dead for you donot recognise the truth, which alone can advance you on the path towardsascent .... And as long as you are unaware of the actual purpose of yourearthly life, the knowledge you possess is wrong and can never lead youto higher spheres. is can only ever be achieved by love, which all of youcan practise but are unwilling to do so because your selfish love is still toostrong and thus the truth still remains inaccessible to you, i.e., you don'trecognise it as such .... And you will live in error, just as you will enter thespiritual kingdom with this error, where it is far more difficult to releaseyourselves from it, for you will not accept the truth over there either, evenif it is offered to you. It therefore always depends on your degree of loveas to whether your thoughts come close to the truth, and this is why youneed only ever be given the teaching of love so that your thoughts will beright, so that My spirit will be able to express itself in you, so that youwill recognise and accept the pure truth which will assuredly guide youupwards towards your perfection .... For darkness will always fight againstlight, yet the world belongs to the prince of darkness and only the personwho detaches himself from him can enter My kingdom. And I will trulyhelp everyone to recognise Me and the truth ....

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Scrutinising psychic communications

BD 6468 received 05.02.1956

Dangers of psychic communication ....

Much is presented to you humans as truth which was received in a mediu-mistic state from the spiritual kingdom .... And you frequently support thisinformation with confidence because you are convinced that you cannotbe wrongly educated from this world .... And especially these teachingscan cause you considerable disadvantage, because you are then no longerable to receive the pure truth. Psychic communication always necessitatesutmost caution .... this has to be said to you time and again. Because therecipient's environment is rarely so purged, so permeated by light, thatnegative influences cannot intrude .... Only then can pure truth also beconveyed by mediumistic means. But the thoughts of people who sur-round the recipient also affect psychically made statements. e recipienthimself has surrendered his will and is now controlled by an unknown will.Only extreme integri of his outer circle keeps everything unspiritual atbay .... However, as soon as a hitherto accepted wrong thought emerges insomeone in this circle, he attracts beings who instantly want to intensihis error, since they are now able to enter this environment .... which isnot possible when all participants are wholly inspired by the desire forpurest truth and completely submit themselves to God and all that is light.But this commonly shared will soon abandons psychic reception, becausepeople will then consciously approach God for clarification, for truth ....and it is no longer necessary to surrender the will, to enter into a state oftrance, because God will certainly grant such sincere request for conveyingthe truth and will choose a servant from this circle to whom He can transmitHis Word in a conscious state ....

On the other hand, not every mediumistic message can be discarded, sincebeings of light occasionally also use this opportuni to contact people,in the hope that one day they will be able to establish the heartfelt con-tact which facilitates the conveyance of absolute truth. But these psychicmessages always have to correspond to God's Word, which is received in a

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conscious state. However, differences of opinion will frequently arise be-cause mediumistic messages are equally highly valued. e messages of thebeings of light will always concur with each other, they will always proclaimthe truth from God .... And each deviation has to be seriously examinedas to whether and to what extent the environment or the medium himselfhad an already preconceived opinion which contradicted the consciouslyconveyed Word. ere is only one truth, and this comes forth from GodHimself, even though it is transmitted by beings of light .... And wherethere is truth there is no contradiction .... But there are many differentopinions, and there are different sources used by people ....

Yet only one source is the fountain of life, which God has made accessi-ble ..... He Himself pours His spirit into the human hearts who preparethemselves as a vessel for the flow of spirit .... is preparation is consciouswork, it is the work of improving the soul .... it is a transformation to love.... which is the prerequisite for the working of the divine spirit ....

But a person can receive psychic messages even when he has not achievedthis transformation, simply by handing over his own will and allowinghimself to be seized by an unknown will .... And the quali of this unknownwill is determined by the degree of maturi of his own soul and the souls ofpeople in his surroundings .... Every spiritually revived person will opposemediumistic reception because he recognises the inherent danger andbecause a spiritually awakened person is always permeated by a profounddesire for truth. However, a medium with a high degree of maturi willsoon be able to receive the messages consciously, and these will nevercontradict the pure Word of God, which flows forth from the fountain oflife made accessible by God Himself. Beware if you discover contradictions,and examine the source of the teachings which contradict themselves. Andif you want to know the truth you will also receive clarification .... whenyou ask God Himself for help, when you submit to Him every doubt, everyquestion, and always just want to be taught correctly and able to supportHim and the only truth .... the truth from God ....

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BD 8416 received 19.02.1963

Difference between the `working of the spirit'and `psychic'receptions ....

You should always bear in mind that the truth is intended to be distributedeverywhere, therefore I must convey it to earth in all places, and this isalways possible as soon as a person fulfils the requirements which the`working of My spirit'in a person are based on. First, the willingness to beof service to Me has to motivate a person to enter into heartfelt contactwith Me, and he will indeed be accepted as a labourer in My vineyard, sincehe is living a life of love otherwise he would not offer himself to Me as aco-worker. Hence, love is likewise the precondition that I can choose himas a suitable vessel into which My spirit can pour. Another requirementis the strong and living faith that I speak to My child as a Father, whenit desires Me to speak .... And a further indispensable prerequisite is thathe is permeated with the desire to be taught the absolute truth and thathe therefore turns to the Eternal Truth Itself in order to receive it .... Nowyou will say that you humans are meeting every one of these requirementsand that I should therefore be able to give My Word directly to manypeople .... Consequently, you will also gullibly accept messages from thespiritual world although they cannot be rated as the `working of the divinespirit'. For many people have an overwhelming urge to make contact withthe supernatural world, and since all of you humans are surrounded byinhabitants of the world beyond, you will surely find it understandablethat they will also make use of every opportuni to make contact with youin order to express themselves to you.

It is indeed difficult for you to recognise the difference between suchcommunications from the spirit world and the genuine `working of Myspirit'.... Yet the one thing I want you to consider is that I merely wantto assist your soul to become perfect on earth .... and that therefore thecontents of My imparted spiritual knowledge through the working of thespirit will be the Gospel of love .... furthermore, that you, in order to findredemption on earth from your original sin, need to receive the knowledgeabout Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation .... about the cause and spiritualreason for His mission .... and about My human manifestation in Him ....And you need to be enlightened by Me about your origin and your goal

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and about My eternal plan of Salvation, through which I will one day reachthe goal I set for Myself when I created you .... is extensive knowledgecan only be conveyed to you through the `working of My spirit'in you, andtherefore only those people can claim to be true Word-recipients whomI have initiated Myself either directly or through My messengers of light,through perfect beings in the spiritual kingdom which absorb the light rayof My love and forward it on My instruction. And thus everyone believinghimself to receive My Word should first seriously question whether hereceived this knowledge from Me, whether he can state with convictionthat he was `initiated'by Me into the truth, into a knowledge which waspreviously still unknown to him .... e information about My plan ofSalvation can only be conveyed to people by Me directly, for anyone whoonly accepts it intellectually from other people will not understand it, evenif it corresponds to the truth, because it requires spiritual enlightenmentin order to comprehend it .... And I certainly convey this knowledge toearth in a clear and fully understandable way in all countries on earth,and it will totally concur, because only pure truth can come forth from Meand this will never contradict itself .... And the recipients of such extensiveknowledge should do everything in their power and try to distribute it.

And this can always be used as a guideline for proclamations from the su-pernatural world, for as soon as they fail to impart to people the profoundknowledge of My eternal plan of Salvation they do not originate fromMe but are expressions of those spirits which are not yet entitled to teachbecause they are not yet permeated by the light which they should forwardon My instructions. It is particularly important to know in which way suchmessages are conveyed to a person, whether he, in a fully conscious state,mentally or audibly hears clear Words or whether a spiritual being speaksthrough the mouth of a person in a psychic state, who surrendered his willand is therefore unable to test which spirit takes possession of him. isexamination must always be carried out first, for although truthful mes-sages can be received in a psychic state too, such momentous and extensiveknowledge which provides complete clarification about My eternal planof Salvation will never be conveyed to people in this way .... en partialtruths may well be imparted but to the same extent misguided teachingscan also slip in, such as the wrong description of the Dei in Jesus, Whose

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correct portrayal is, however, of utmost importance. And as soon as peopleare taught wrongly, especially in this respect, they still live in error andevery error has a disastrous effect on the human being's soul. I don't keepclari ing this time and again for no reason, because Jesus Christ's act ofSalvation and My human manifestation must be fully understood by youhumans .... For the purpose of your existence on earth is that you will befree from all guilt when you pass into the kingdom of the beyond. And onlyif you possess a truthful explanation about this act of Salvation by JesusChrist will you consciously take the path to the cross, you, who once de-nied Me your acknowledgement, will consciously acknowledge Me againof your own free will ....

But precisely as long as this problem of My human manifestation is notyet solved by you, you will still live in spiritual darkness .... And if youare now being taught by those in the spiritual realm which are instructedby Me to teach you and to convey My Word to you, then these beings oflight will first of all provide this significant knowledge, and thereby youwill also recognise the working of My spirit in you .... en you will notneed to be afraid of being used by other spiritual forces, which certainlywill also disguise themselves and claim to be your guides and yet do nothave the knowledge themselves as to be able to enlighten you. However,you humans don't know how My adversary influences people as well as thestill immature beings in the beyond, and you don't know that he will tryeverything in his power in order to undermine the pure truth and to makepeople believe that they know the truth. eir skilful disguise will causemuch harm, because people allow themselves to be used and are far toogullible themselves .... For they lack the right judgment, and they confusethe transmission from the supernatural spheres with the `working of Myspirit', which irrefutably grants truth to those who are instructed by Me tospread the truth throughout the world. And you should accept this truthand comply with My will, you should not just be listeners but doers, andthen you will no longer need to doubt and question but know that youpossess the truth ....

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Scrutinising prophets

BD 2566 received 29.11.1942

False prophets ....Test the spirits ....

e Lord warns you to `Take heed that ye be not deceived by false prophets....'. He thereby wants to remind you to test everything first before youaccept it as truth. `Test the spirits whether they are of God ....'Consequently,prophets will also emerge from the darkness who assume the right tospread their teachings in the world as truth. en it will be up to peopleto scrutinise their sermons. And they will certainly be able to do so if theywant to know the truth and appeal to God for enlightenment. For God gavethem an indication as to what to look out for; He announced to them inadvance that false prophets, false spirits, will express themselves. But theywill deny Christ, they will not acknowledge Him as the Son of God, as theRedeemer of the world, they will doubt Jesus'divini and therefore notlive in love, for love recognises and professes Jesus Christ. And thus youwill recognise false prophets by the fact that they act entirely without love,even though they seek to win people over for themselves with sweet wordsand enticing speeches. ey promise to save the world and want to depriveit of its faith in Jesus Christ, they want to seduce you and of whom theLord cautions you. ey preach love yet their actions are completely devoidof love and their words are deceptive and hypocritical; it is not the spiritof God which speaks through them but the spirit of the one from belowinstead .... However, where Jesus Christ is professed in the world, that is,where the spirit of God expresses itself, you should listen to it .... For it willpreach the same love which revealed itself to the world in Jesus Christ, itwill show you the path to God, it will teach you the love which alone willlead to God .... it will try to impart the blessings of the act of Salvationupon you and constantly refer you to Jesus Christ, the divine Redeemer,Who came into the world in order to take your sins upon Himself throughHis death on the cross. Jesus Christ came in the flesh; He took the pathon earth in order to show you how you can liberate yourselves from thebondage of the world, from the adversary's bondage .... He took the path

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on earth for your sake, for your Salvation .... You ought to follow him andto this end you must acknowledge Him .... Hence you can recognise a trueprophet by the fact that he will lead you to Jesus Christ, in that case youcan give credence to his words, for the spirit which testifies to Him is thespirit of God .... Yet reject the voice of the one who opposes Christ, forhe speaks on behalf of God's adversary, who wants to lead people into sinand guides them towards their ruin .... Test the spirits to see whether theyare of God .... However, if God sends His servants to you who testi toHim, then listen to them and comply with their teaching, for they are Hisrepresentatives through whom He speaks to you Himself so that you willfind the right path to Him ....

Amen

BD 4675 received 24.06.1949

` at day and hour knoweth no man ....'False prophets of the last days ....

No seer and prophet will ever be able to predict the time of an impendingjudgment, for this is not permitted by God due to being detrimental forpeople. For this reason no person will ever be able to predict the day when ajudgment comes upon people. Nevertheless, their attention shall be drawnto it, and so God proclaims through a human mouth, through seers andprophets, as soon as a judgment is approaching. e announcement of ajudgment on its own should therefore be believed, but if a definite time ofthe judgment is given, the prophecy can rightfully be dismissed as wrong ....In that case false prophets will have appeared which need not be listenedto, for such announcements are generally made for the sake of earthlyadvantages and then you must be cautious. However, if God avails Himselfof a person in order to inform humani of His eternal plan of Salvation, Hewill not merely inform him of His intention, of the forthcoming judgment,but He will also provide him with the general knowledge which makesthe necessi of a judgment comprehensible to God's servant, so that hecan convincingly substantiate these prophesies to his fellow human beings.But regardless of how determinedly he will stand up for the truth of theproclamations, he will never be able to state a precise date, because God

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reserves this right for Himself. Nevertheless, each such proclamation can beaccepted as absolute truth, and time and again the Book of the Fathers willconfirm that the announcements completely correspond to it, consequently,the fulfilment of these announcements can be expected with certain andthe forthcoming judgment taken as established fact, even so, humanishall remain uncertain as to when God will manifest Himself; howeverit shall always be prepared, otherwise the announcements conveyed topeople by God's love would defeat the purpose and the judgment wouldbefall humani suddenly and unexpectedly ....

Amen

BD 5778 received 28.09.1953

False Christ's and prophets ....

In the last days the pure truth will be particularly attacked, which is thework of Satan who, being God's adversary, wants to undermine the truthby confusing people's thoughts so that they cannot recognise the truthas such any longer. And his methods and tactics are so well devised thateven people whose will does not oppose Me o en do not want to see thesituation clearly .... but who could see it if they sincerely only wanted thetruth. Especially during the last days true and deceptive lights will flash atthe same time, and a genuine will for truth is necessary in order to be ableto differentiate between them, because it will be difficult to understandthe matter .... Because many false Christ's and prophets shall arise, aswas foretold .... which is also a sign of the end time .... From this followsthat they will fight in the same manner, that they will therefore presentthemselves as messengers from above, that they will speak the words ofChrist and foretell the future to people .... but that they are representativesof the one who fights against the truth .... to lead people astray so thatthey cannot recognise the truth anymore. us you don't always have tosearch for these false Christ's and prophets outside of spiritual life sinceeven the representatives of misguided teachings within the ecclesiasticalorganisations are false Christ's and false prophets .... everyone offeringvague, misleading explanations has to be included, as well as all those whotry to prevent the pure truth from being given to people, hence all those

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who adhere to distorted teachings and restrict people's freedom of thoughtby withholding from them what could have a clari ing effect ....

Everything that is untrue is the work of false Christ's and prophets, andto make a distinction irrefutably requires the sincere will for truth, whichalso has to be willing to surrender what the person has always endorsed.... if it does not comply with the truth. Hence you humans can onlyprotect yourselves from the actions of God's adversary during the last daysbefore the end if you place yourselves into the safe hands of God, Whois eternal truth .... if you pray to Him with sincere will for truth that Heshould protect you from error and then open your eyes and ears .... enyou will emotionally recognise what you should accept or reject .... enfalse Christ's and false prophets will not be able to dazzle you with adeceptive light .... en the rising of a so glow in your heart will giveyou reassurance that you live in truth, and then you will also maintain thistruth with conviction and support its cause during the last battle on thisearth .... and you will be true defenders of Christ ....

Amen

BD 7841 received 04.03.1961

e adversary's disguise as a spirit of light ....Miracles? ....

Your thinking is utterly wrong if you look upon the adversary's machina-tions as divine miracles, because they can be recognised as soon as youhumans are of good will and subsequently also desire to think correctly.... For the sign of My working consists of the fact that everything testifiesto love, wisdom and power; consequently, you need only investigate as towhether love, wisdom and power can be recognised when you are informedof such alleged miracles .... My adversary also disguises himself in the formof light, he appears as a spirit of light and confuses gullible people whoare looking for sensations and therefore also accept anything unverified.You should not believe blindly, each one of you should examine and keepthat which seems acceptable to you a er serious scrutiny. So if phenomenaare reported to you which supposedly are My `divine'activi , you shouldknow that I do not work in unusual ways in order to lead people to faith,

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because a living faith can only be gained through kind-hearted actions andany other faith is of no value before Me. Why should I therefore offer youunusual phenomena and what would be My purpose for it? You can findout anything you need to know from My Word, its transmission is certainlyan extraordinary gi of grace but it does not oblige anyone to believe whodoes not live a life of love .... But it shall stimulate you into kind-heartedactivi , and then your faith will become firm and alive. A spiritually highlymature person will occasionally be able to experience spiritual visions, buthe will find it very difficult to describe to his fellow human beings what hehad seen .... In that case one cannot speak of `unusual phenomena'whichoriginate from Me .... Yet My adversary o en works by dazzling peopleand thus creating an illusion of things which are only perceived by peopleakin to him, who are not in heartfelt contact with Me, their God and Fatherof eterni .... is can only happen if people think the wrong way andthereby prepare their own foundation for wrong images .... if they them-selves are willing to confirm inaccuracies by testi ing to them .... eirlack of earnestly requesting the truth leaves them open to any error, andthen it is easy for My adversary to build upon this error and to increasinglyconfuse people's thinking more and more so that they see and hear what hefeigns to them because they want to see and hear it. Don't believe that I tryto prove or reveal Myself to those who do not shape themselves such that Ican reveal Myself to them .... but even then it does not happen so obviouslythat it would compel someone into believing who has not reached a spe-cific degree of maturi .... And ask yourselves whether people advocatingunusual experiences or phenomena can be credited with this maturi ....because only the masses will let themselves be deceived but fully maturedsouls will never experience My adversary's obvious activi .... Anyone whobelieves blindly gets more and more caught up in Satan's web of lies, forhe has an easy game with them .... But if you seriously desire the truth, hewill not be able to deceive you, then you will recognise him regardless ofwhat he does .... For his activi emerges from darkness and only increasesthe darkness .... However, where I Am at work there is light .... and therecan only be light where love is present. And this light of love can onlyemanate from Me, but it will also illuminate and penetrate the darkness.... erefore, look for light, try to escape the darkness and turn to Me as

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the light of eterni .... And you will easily recognise where My adversaryhas intervened, for neither My love nor My wisdom nor power can berecognised there .... His activi will be clearly recognisable, as he will onlyever fight the light and therefore also the truth ....

Amen

BD 8521 received 07.06.1963

False Christ's and prophets ....Characteristic: Salvation ....

A strong light casts a deep shadow .... So especially where My pure Word isemanated to Earth, much error will also be conveyed to it, for My adversaryseeks to extinguish the light from above or to obscure its radiance. isalso explains his attempt to mislead people with seemingly similar gi s,that he deceives people with transmissions from the world of darkness andtries to offer them in the same format but which clearly betray his counteractivi , for it distracts people from that which is most important: from thepure truth about Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation .... e redemptionof souls through Jesus Christ is precisely what he wants to prevent inorder to keep his followers, whom he regards as his power. Much spiritualknowledge will be offered and everyone will claim to have `received it fromabove'.... because My adversary does not shy away from disguising himselfas an angel of light in order to confuse people's thinking. And I cannotstop his approach; a er all, people themselves grant him this right. For itis mainly the desire for unusual experiences which offers My adversary theopportuni to intervene and to provide them with spiritual informationwhich is worthless, if not perilous, for the human soul. Many people havea very strong desire for extraordinary experiences and are therefore notcritical enough with themselves .... If they turn to Me with an earnest willfor protection from erroneous thinking, if they are really interested in thepure truth, they will certainly also be protected and My adversary willbe unable to exert his influences over them, because I Myself will placethe inner resistance into their heart .... But mostly they have initiated thecommunication with the beyond and are themselves incapable of veri ingas to whether they receive truth or error .... And the spiritual beings in the

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beyond make use of this attitude by providing people with messages whichthey accept unchecked as truth, and thus My adversary can constantlyintervene. e fact that he is solely interested in intensi ing the darknessand in obstructing people's path to Me .... that he will do everything in hispower to prevent people from becoming redeemed through Jesus Christ,can be easily understood in view of the approaching end. Such connectionswith the spiritual world are therefore established in all places and peoplewould rather accept this spiritual knowledge than the pure truth conveyedto them from My side.

Nevertheless, I will not determine people's free will but, time and again,I will provide clarification instead, and every sincerely striving person willrecognise the truth and reject the error. I will repeatedly mention thecharacteristics to you, I will provide those of you who want to serve Mewith the clear abili of discernment so that you can check yourselves and,in turn, also give clear instructions to your fellow human beings so thatthey, too, will be able to recognise the error and liberate themselves from it.... You can rest assured that no earnestly truth-seeking person will becomeentangled in the thicket of lies and error which My adversary skilfullyknows how to cast .... However, anyone who accepts something withoutexamination lacks a profound longing for truth and therefore cannot beprotected by Me, for My adversary is equally entitled to fight for everysoul so as not to lose it, because it once followed him voluntarily and hemakes full use of this right of his during the soul's human existence ....and only the human being's own will can disable him .... You will still hearmuch about his activi and must pay ever more attention to everythinghappening around yourselves .... You should only ever ask for Me and Myprotection and I will truly not deny it to you .... I have constantly toldyou to beware of false Christ's and false prophets .... And how o en willthe attempt still be made to lead you astray .... how o en will the holiestof names still be used in order to give you a taste for error and untruth.But you .... if you are serious about the truth .... must pay attention toyour innermost feeling which will always discard the error. And alwayscommend yourselves to Me and My grace, for as soon as merely your will isinclined towards Me, My adversary will have lost all power over you. FalseChrist's and false prophets will time and again tempt you until the end,

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but you are able to recognise them, for they will not emphasise Jesus'actof Salvation and not try to encourage you humans to take the path tothe cross in order to liberate yourselves from your guilt of sin .... enyou will also know that you are not truthfully being instructed and cansafely reject everything you are offered by that side .... Precisely the lackof knowledge about the significance of the act of Salvation is the spiritualdarkness, and this shall be penetrated by the light of the pure truth ....

e act of Salvation shall be mentioned in all places with the referencethat the salvation .... the forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ .... is themost important thing which must be attained in earthly life in order to beable to enter the kingdom of light and beatitude .... And this knowledge isrepeatedly conveyed to you through My Word from above .... But My Wordwill never be spoken where no clarification of it is given or where His greatact of mercy is denied or trivialised .... erefore, beware of false Christ'sand false prophets, for they only increase the darkness spread across theearth but they do not grant light ....

Amen

Scrutinising teachers and teaching material

BD 2800 received 06.07.1943

Professional missionaries ....Academic knowledge ....

Every mission on earth with the aim of redeeming the bound souls ispleasing to God and thus has His blessing, but those who have acceptedsuch a mission as their task in life must also endeavour to spread the puretruth. Not everyone can therefore carry out this work if he does not knowthe truth himself. And the human being's will is once again the decisivefactor .... it depends on the reason which impels him to tackle this work. Hisgood will to be of service to God and to lead lost souls to Him will also granthim the pure truth which enables him to accomplish redemptive work onearth. is is why such an intention must first be preceded by the realisationof his own lack of knowledge, which prompts him to genuinely turn toGod with an appeal for spiritual enlightenment. Only this fulfils the first

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condition for a profession, which must arise from the heart, but it must notbe a profession in the sense of the word. However, the danger of the latterexists once a person deems himself knowledgeable due to academicallyaccepted knowledge which nevertheless does not enable him to work as ateacher, because he does not recognise the truth as yet and therefore cannotpass it on either. In that case he will never be able to instruct his fellowhuman beings correctly. He will not be able to explain the purpose andgoal of earthly life to them because he has no knowledge of the very firstbeginning and the ultimate goal of everything which must take the pathacross earth. He will merely strictly adhere to dogmatic teachings, whichare certainly passed on again academically but which do not stimulatethe soul's activi and would be able to awaken its indwelling spirit. ehuman being merely accepts the knowledge intellectually but it fails toenter his heart and therefore does not achieve the soul's transformationwhich, however, is absolutely essential for the soul's redemption from itsbound state. is academic knowledge can therefore never be enough fora mission on earth whose aim is the redemption of erring souls .... Andthus it is also understandable why professional missionaries have suchlittle success unless profound humili towards God and deepest love fortheir fellow human beings impels them to take up this office .... For onlythe latter are true servants of God whose work amongst people can be ablessing for them. True service to God solely consists of helping to redeemthat which had emerged from God and separated from Him but which theeternal Love will never turn away from .... And as soon as a person setshimself this task in life and, in recognition of his own ignorance, desiresGod's support, he will be of service to God. en he will be able to fulfilhis task conscientiously and successfully, he will fulfil his mission on earthand contribute towards the redemption of the bound souls .... Whereasthe actual profession of a servant of God is no guarantee that he had firstfulfilled the condition and thus he must also be denied the abili of beingable to instruct his fellow human beings of the truth. Consequently, theredemption of these souls is questionable, because only truth can set peoplefree, because only the pure truth is redemptive ....

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BD 2894 received 24.09.1943

Suitabili for scrutinising spiritual gi s ....

e result of inadequate research will always be negative when it concernsthe scrutiny of spiritual products, since the will for rejection already pre-dominates and this resolve is influenced by the opponent of truth. e willto advocate the truth once a person has realised it is absolutely essentialfor recognising the truth. Yet, precisely this will is lacking in him and,consequently, his reasoning power will be clouded and he will either benot suitable to examine or his judgment will no longer be reliable. Everyserious examiner must undertake this task impartially; he must sincerelylook for the truth and be willing to accept the recognised truth withoutprejudice. en he will only reject that which he cannot inwardly affirm,and he will be supported by beings which want to help him know the truthand will guide his thinking correctly. For this reason, only people who donot follow a specific school of thought are suitable to examine spiritualresults, otherwise their thinking is no longer unbiased, for the teachingsintended to be scrutinised will clash with the doctrines of their schoolof thought and then it will require an exceptionally firm will in order tobecome completely free from the latter. And so the most convinced follow-ers are o en gained amongst people whose thoughts are not committedto teachings of a different school of thought, because they will scrutiniseeverything without resistance and subsequently also penetrate deeper intothe spiritual information offered to them and consequently also recogniseit as truth, because the truth speaks for itself as long as it is not interspersedby error which clouds a person's understanding. en the bearers of thepure truth and the followers of other schools of thought will, understand-ably, oppose each other, because the latter are convinced of their pointsof view and therefore don't examine other spiritual gi s seriously enoughbut, on the other hand, always feel affronted as soon as they are confrontedwith views which were offered from the spiritual kingdom. ere will onlyever be individual people with the will and the abili to scrutinise spiritualgi s, and therefore only a few people will recognise the truth in them.Nevertheless, the attempt should be made everywhere to persuade peopleto examine the gi s from above, so that people will take notice of them andthat it will awaken their desire for truth which can also train their abili to

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weigh up the different points of view against each other and then choosethat which is right. en it will still remain up to a person's free will to formhis own opinion of the spiritual gi s .... for he will not be forced by anymeans to accept or to reject them ....

Amen

BD 4534 received 07.01.1949

e right kind of teacher ....Truth - Error ....

People must hand themselves over to a good teacher if they want to betaught correctly, so long as they don't come to Me Myself for schooling.

ey could be instructed by Me directly at all times, yet they would lackthe knowledge of this as well as faith. Consequently, they will have toreceive the knowledge from somewhere else and need only make sure thatthe instructor knows the truth and is able to teach them correctly. Beinginstructed in the truth must be very important to them, therefore they mustinvestigate the origin of the teacher's knowledge; they should first clarithe relationship the teacher has with Me. Hence, they must first believe inMe as Creator and Father of eterni , they must inwardly acknowledge aDei and make an effort to get to know this Dei . is is the first conditionor hardly anyone would try to penetrate spiritual knowledge. A distinctionmust be made between people who allow themselves to be instructed andthose who want to be instructed .... e first let themselves be pushedinto a school without resistance, they let themselves be seized by teacherslooking for subjects to whom they want to impart their points of view. elatter look for their own school in order to receive knowledge, and theyare serious about attaining the truth. I will come to meet these seekers andguide them to the right teacher. However, since My adversary also wantsto gain your soul he will not miss the opportuni to let representatives oferror cross your path. Anyone who seeks the truth will also come acrossincompetent teachers, and therefore indications are given to you that youshould conduct an examination in order to entrust yourselves to the rightteachers and how you should do this. And again it should be said thatyour attention must first be drawn to the teacher's attitude towards Me,

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whether he spiritedly advocates My Word or whether his lips merely passMy Words on, which is very quickly recognisable for the serious seeker,since the repeat of the living Word ignites the listener's heart, whereas thelifeless Word is tiring and puts people off listening. Although someonewith a hunger for truth can also derive some benefit from this dead Word,he will nevertheless feel dissatisfied with such teachings so that he willexpect more, then he should give in to this longing and look for a differentteacher. But teachers who inspire people's keen debates, who repeat MyWord animatedly and cause a positive response in people's heart, whosebond with God can be recognised by their kind and loving nature, are truerepresentatives of My Word and in possession of truth. You can trustinglyhand yourselves over to them, they will teach you correctly and contributeto the fact that you will soon establish heartfelt contact with Me and thuscan be instructed by My spirit directly, either mentally or through the innerWord. e origin of their knowledge might well be the same with bothteachers, both might have gained the knowledge through study, and yettheir teaching abili will differ and therefore their knowledge will alsobe either of purest truth or interspersed with errors, depending on theirmaturi of soul. For this reason you must always pay attention to theteacher's way of life, to what extent the human being follows Christ, thatis, to what extent he is permeated by love for his neighbour, which willcharacterise his entire nature and will always be recognisable, because lovedoes not hide itself. Truth can always be found where love is present becauseit cannot be gained academically; instead, it can only be gained, recognisedand taken possession of through the working of the spirit, which is theresult of a life of love. And thus it can always be noticed whether a teacherexpresses his own thoughts or merely words which have not yet found theright response in his heart and therefore cannot be repeated spiritedly. Testthe teachers and choose a suitable teacher for yourselves, for you will comeinto contact with both. e right ones will lead you to Me, yet the otherswill not be prevented from approaching you because you can and shoulddecide for yourselves if you seriously want to be taught the truth ....

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BD 4968 received 16.09.1950

Test the spirits ....Satan's great power before the end ....Doubts ....

You will experience ever more doubt and confusion thanks to My adver-sary's incentive who wants to pull you away from Me and also prevent thepure truth from establishing itself as it will glaringly highlight his activi .He is therefore always keen to isolate My followers and representativeson earth, to stop their connection with people who want to educate themand introduce them to the truth. He proceeds with great cunning and ina disguise which even My Own find difficult to recognise. He spreads hispoisonous seeds all over the place to render everything which is intendedto have a life-giving effect incapable of living. He instils severe doubts inthe hearts of those who work for God and His kingdom .... But anyonein doubt should turn to Me directly and I, as the eternal Truth, will helphim at all times, for it is My will that the truth shall be spread and thateverything shall be denounced which does not correspond to truth .... Ican certainly impart the truth to you directly, however, as long as you arenot receptive for communications from the spiritual kingdom you will beinstructed through My messengers, and you should scrutinise their credi-bili , their faithfulness, that is, their way of life according to My will. enyou will be able to form a correct judgment, then you will be beneficiallyaffected by the pure truth and you will recognise that which does not andnever can come from Me.

My adversary will put even the staunchest champions of faith under severepressure with his weapon of deception and falsehood. He, too, pretends tobe devout and devoted to God if he can thereby cause confusion. He doesnot eschew from using the mask he hides behind and presents himself asMy representative on earth, yet it is easily recognisable for anyone whowants to belong to Me and is watchful. He can be recognised; consequently,not one of My Own needs to be afraid of getting caught up in his web oflies, as long as he genuinely wants to do what is right. He can only causeconfusion in weak or undecided people who have not entirely escaped fromhis power. And he is only able to deceive them because they don't take an

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examination seriously and don't keep strictly to My Word, which alwayshelps them to become aware.

Anyone who lives a life of love, who therefore lives up to My Word, cannotbe deceived by illusive words of love, for My adversary will never preachunselfish love but always endorse that which will provide people withearthly success, even if the word `love'is used as an excuse, for then selfishlove becomes the driving force of action, which I never have preached norever will preach to people. e spirits which visibly or invisibly approachpeople must be tested, and they can certainly be recognised if the divineRedeemer Jesus Christ is mentioned to them .... if I Myself Am calledupon in spirit and in truth for help with every serious scrutiny .... Ifcomplete clarification about Jesus, the Son of God, and His act of Salvationis demanded from these spirits they will have to speak up .... regardlessof whether they are spiritual beings or embodied as humans. And everyspiritual being which stands up for Christ and His act of Salvation, whichacknowledges Him as the Son of God, is good and will never cause youharm. But if a being, be it human or spiritual, portraying itself as a saviour,as someone chosen by Me or as an anointed being designed to influenceyou, merely avails itself of Jesus'name in order to make you listen toit, then it is an emissary of hell which can only mislead those who areenslaved by it or the weak, who merely expect from it and its propositionsworldly-material improvements, therefore they should not be spirituallyacknowledged as My messengers. My adversary has great power, especiallyduring the last days before the end, but it will never be so great that it couldbe detrimental to you, My faithful followers, for if you live a life of loveyou will be spiritually enlightened and recognise Satan's machinations ....However, many people are still captivated by him, and they themselvesgrant him the power he exerts over them. He will certainly still cause muchconfusion amongst people, yet My Own will not fall prey to him, and eventhe tiniest spark of desire for truth will find Me prepared to hand out Mygrace so that My adversary's activi shall be recognised and abhorred. You,who are true yourselves, should therefore not fear his mask .... a heartfeltthought sent up to Me makes his influence ineffective and you will brightlyand clearly recognise what is true and what is false ....

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BD 5150 received 13.06.1951

Whoever is taught by God requires no further external knowledge ....

Whoever receives the remarkable grace of being taught by Myself, whoeverreceives and accepts this directly imparted teaching material certainly hasno further need to find knowledge elsewhere, for I will completely satishim with the bread of life. He no longer needs to accept other spiritualnourishment; he no longer needs to draw from a cistern when the clearestwater flows to him from the spring which is indeed far cleaner and better.However, if fresh spring water is not accessible people should gratefullyaccept the water at their disposal and carefully protect it from pollution ....Do you understand what I mean by that? I do not, in any way, want to scornwhat has been sacred to you since ancient times, the Book of the Fathers,which shall never lose its value to people who, in good faith of Me and forlove of Me, try to derive knowledge from it .... since it conceals profoundknowledge, but it can only be found by someone whose spirit has comealive .... But when I instruct you Myself, I give you the teaching and theexplanation at the same time, because I adapt all lessons to your degree ofmaturi , I give to you in accordance with your understanding. First of allI inform you of My will, since it is your task on earth to comply with it ....But I also reveal Myself to you as God and Father, as Creator of all infiniand as the most loving Father to My children, who ought to achieve thechildship on earth and hence require help and support. e meaning of MyWords has become incomprehensible to you, and thus I want to explaintheir meaning in plain and simple terms to you. Consequently I Am onceagain sending My gospel to earth as I had proclaimed at the time of My lifeon earth.

I don't merely want to be present as God in your intellect, I want to livein your hearts, I want you to believe in Me with a living faith, and I wantto teach you how you can arrive at this living faith .... not by means ofmuch intellectual knowledge, even if you have taken it from the Book ofthe Fathers .... but only by means of a completely unselfish life of love.Your knowledge will become far more profound and your faith more alivewhen you fulfil My commandments of love for God and other people ....

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you will also become able to educate other people in turn and inform themabout the results of the right conduct in life. And then you will be My truefollowers on earth, you will be preachers a er My will, because then youwill draw all knowledge from within yourselves, then My spirit will guideyou into eternal truth and you can make use of knowledge which you donot receive from an external source but always because of My grace. enthe fountain of life will have opened up for you, then living water will flowfrom the source of My love for your refreshment, and you should also offerthe revitalizing drink to other people, so that they, too, can taste the pureclear water and never want to be without it again. All people could refreshthemselves at the source of life yet only few will find it, only the few whoare not satisfied with what is inexplicable and therefore look for truth.And since they approach Me Myself for revitalizing nourishment I will notrefuse it to them. Take from the source of life, accept with a thankful heartthe contribution of My love and appreciate the immense grace to be taughtby Myself .... For you still will need much strength which you can alwaysextract from My Word, which comes to you from above, because I haveblessed it with My strength ....

Amen

BD 6728 received 04.01.1957

A teacher's du : to examine teaching material ....

It is a great responsibili to offer people spiritual information as long as it isdoubtful whether it corresponds to the truth. Hence anyone, who believesthat he is called to educate his fellow human beings, first has to arrive at theinner conviction that his teaching material is the pure truth. But he can onlygain this inner conviction if he forms his own opinion first, if he seriouslyexamines his acquired knowledge .... And, again, these examinations haveto be conducted with My support, he must sincerely ask Me to enlightenhis spirit, to guide his thoughts correctly, to protect him from misguidedreasoning .... Only then will he be able to differentiate between truth anderror, and only then is he a true servant to Me, a true messenger of MyWord, who will now be able to work for the benefit of people on earth.

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But anyone who unhesitatingly passes on spiritual knowledge which hehas equally unhesitatingly accepted, is not in the right position. He is nomessenger of My Word because he is not in My service but serves someoneelse, and his activi on earth cannot be blessed, for he acts irresponsiblytowards his fellow human beings by leading them into error but askingthem to believe him.

Everyone will now raise the objection that he believes to be true what he isteaching or spreading .... But it did not even occur to him that he, too, couldhave been given the wrong information .... And that in itself is blatantcarelessness, it is a sin of omission, because he did not think about hisspiritual information seriously enough .... When someone wants to workfor Me then it is not unknown to him that I have an opponent .... It isnot unknown to him that light and darkness oppose each other .... ushe knows that the opponent's work intends to darken the light, he knows,that he spreads error in order to refute the truth .... Consequently he has toguard himself from being taken in by error and to request My protectionfrom My adversary's activi , from accepting misconceptions .... And if heis serious, then I will draw his thoughts'attention to misguided knowledgeand he can be certain that his thinking will clari itself. For I will leave nohuman being's thoughts in error who prays to Me for truth.

But anyone who refrains from the latter and yet believes to dwell in truth,is mistaken .... en he has to come to terms with his wrong informationhimself, but it is irresponsible to pass this information on, and thereforesuch a person burdens himself with much guilt, even though his listeners,too, have to do the same when they are instructed: to first ask Me Myselffor truth and for enlightenment of thought in order to recognise it as truth....

You humans examine every commodi for its value .... and thus youshould also examine spiritual information and not accept it thoughtlesslyand without hesitation. Something that does not correspond to truth willonly be detrimental to you, it will never benefit your soul because it canonly reach its goal through truth. Anyone who wants to be a teacher tohis fellow human beings, first has to acquaint himself with what he wantsto offer them, and he may and should only pass it on when he is sure ofhis teaching material, when he himself is convinced that it is the truth.

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And this conviction cannot be imparted to him academically, but he has toacquire it himself .... He has to desire the pure truth and turn to the EternalTruth himself so that it can be bestowed on him .... Heartfelt contact withMe needs to be established in advance, but then he can confidently act asMy representative, for he will only ever teach the truth when he wants tobring Me closer to his fellow human beings, and his work will be blessed....

Amen

BD 8037 received 09.11.1961

Test all things and keep what is good ....

e will to serve Me is assessed. en I will assign to a person the workhe is capable of accomplishing and which will always be a blessing forhim and his fellow human beings. But they, too, must pay attention to theinner instructions; they may not act according to their own will, whichcan easily happen if they want to be renowned for their activi and thusvery easily endanger their vineyard work. e most profound humiliand a feeling of personal inadequacy must always make them take flight toMe, so that they will hand themselves over to Me .... ey must only everstrive to fulfil My will, and truly, they will feel My will in their heart andwork accordingly. And everyone who wants to be of service to Me mustexamine himself in order to support Me and My kingdom convincingly ....For the vineyard work consists of sowing good seeds in the field of people'slives: of proclaiming My Word wherever this is possible. And in order tobe able to pass something on, the human must possess it first .... thus hefirst must accept the seed from Me Myself, and this requires willingnessand a certain degree of maturi of soul. Only then will he be able to hearMy Word within himself and carry this as the pure Gospel into the world.Where My pure Word can be conveyed to Earth this degree of maturihas been attained; the human being receives the right seeds which he canunhesitatingly spread according to My will .... But it will always be le upto you to scrutinise whether the spiritual knowledge has originated fromMe Myself, whether the `working of the spirit'in a person can be spoken of.And your heart must give you the answer, for you will feel when I speak to

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you, providing you sincerely desire the truth .... providing you want to hearMe. I will always express Myself such that your soul will profit from theinformation you hear. I will admonish you with kindness and mention Mycommandments of love, I will caution you not to waste your life, which willalways happen if you live without love .... I will enlighten you about yourpurpose of earthly life .... I will emphasise Jesus'act of Salvation and adviseyou to take the path to the cross .... I will dispel your spiritual darkness bykindling a light in you. And that means that I will convey knowledge toyou which can only be imparted upon you by My spirit. Make the test asto whether you profit from it spiritually .... whether they are emp Wordswithout meaning which leave you unimpressed, which any person can say,or whether they radiate wisdom .... For every Word which comes forth fromMe Myself emanates My love and wisdom and touches the human heartsuch that it will escape the spiritual darkness, that it will kindle a light inhis heart, that the human being will learn to recognise Me Myself in Mynature, that he will receive an answer to the inner questions concerningspiritual spheres and which occupy him as a human being.

My spirit will always express itself when I Am able to address a persondirectly, and this spirit speaks to the spirit within the person, which is partof Me. is Word is received and conveyed by the recipient to his fellowhuman beings .... is process is something extremely significant; a er all,it gives evidence of My presence to you if you hear My Word within you.... And because My Word is blessed with My strength, it will also have apowerful effect on the people to whom My messenger brings it .... But youshould not forget that in the end time even this extraordinary activi oflove of Mine will be feigned by My well disguised adversary in order toundermine My working .... that he, too, will try to express himself throughsuitable vessels and that he will be successful if a soul's state of maturidoes not permit My presence as yet but that the person will deem himselfcalled to serve as a vessel, because forces in the beyond instilled suchthoughts in him and he accepted them in spiritual arrogance and wrongjudgment of his spiritual state. In that case I cannot speak through him;instead, My adversary, who o en also hides himself behind My Word, willavail himself of him; for he will go to any length in order to achieve hisgoal .... to keep people in spiritual darkness. But you must always earnestly

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conduct this examination by calling upon My support, for you ought totest all things and keep what is good .... And you must always becomeenlightened; otherwise you cannot speak of a `divine'Word .... And lightsignifies increased spiritual knowledge which corresponds to truth andwhich only I Myself, the Light of eterni , can convey to you ....

Amen

BD 8783 received 18.03.1964

A mediator's introspection ....

One day it will be a blessing for you that you were able to bear up againsttemptations, that you took refuge in Me during every adversi and inneraffliction and that you are once again allowed to test your will as to whoshould gain control over you .... I must allow all temptations to take place,for you only become victors by fighting, and every temptation is a testof your willpower to endorse that which you know to be the truth. Timeand again deceptive lights will weaken your eyes, and time and again youwill be thrown into inner doubts or questions, and then it will be up toyou to whom you will turn in order to settle all doubts and to receive ananswer to all questions, and blessed are you if you only ever turn to Me,your God and Father of eterni , Who is the Truth and wants to grantit to everyone who wants it. And time and again I have to tell you thatthe human being's free will is the explanation for everything. It is notprevented from digressing from the truth, and every person is influencedby the spiritual kingdom according to his frame of mind .... And thus,his thinking will more or less correspond to the truth as well, and onthe foundation of his thoughts he will add further knowledge .... and hecannot be certain as to whether it originates from the Eternal Truth. And,again, every individual person's will is judged .... whether he wants to givesomething to his fellow human beings, whether he wants to help them andwhether the reasons for his actions are good .... whether he is thereforekind-hearted and wants to please other people .... Accordingly, he will alsothink right .... He simply should not yet have created his own foundationon which he will subsequently build. It is therefore especially important toestablish the origin of his thoughts, for the whole sum can end up wrong if

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a miscalculation had already slipped in at the very beginning .... is is whythe pure truth is only ever guaranteed if it can pour into an emp vessel, ifI Myself Am the source and let the flow of My strength of love pour into avessel which has been completely emptied. en I will be able to instructa person from the beginning and misguided thoughts will be excluded, forthey cannot exist alongside the pure truth from Me, they will be instantlyrecognised as wrong and will therefore not be accepted.

And every person has to subject himself to this introspection if he wants towork as a mediator between Me and the human race and convey the truthto them. e spiritual world has every possibili at its disposal of takingpossession of a person, of subjugating his will and then of working throughthis person .... As to whether this happens in a positive or negative senseis determined by the person who hands himself over to spiritual forces sothat they can speak through him .... And the degrees of maturi vary somuch in the spiritual world that their messages, too, are entirely different.... You humans don't always possess the necessary gi of discernment tohave the guarantee of knowing the truth .... erefore the world of light willalways advise you to shape yourselves such that it will enable the `workingof the spirit'within the person, so that I Myself .... the eternal Father-Spirit.... will be able to express Myself through the spiritual spark in you. Inthat case you can be certain that only pure truth will be imparted to you.And I Myself will always inform you about the characteristic of the `divineworking of the spirit', which will enlighten you about Jesus Christ and Hisact of Salvation .... For all you humans will live your earthly existence invain if you don't find the path to Him, Who alone can release you fromMy adversary's power .... Who alone can redeem the original sin, whichconsisted of your past apostasy from Me, and Who alone can grant you thestrength to liberate yourselves through His acquired blessings on the crossto strengthen your will ....

One caused your downfall .... One can and will redeem you and li you upto Him again .... And this One needs to be recognised and acknowledgedas Redeemer of the world, in Whom I embodied Myself and accomplishedthe act of Salvation for people. And if the knowledge of this is not clearlyand unequivocally made accessible to you then you are not taught by MeMyself and continue to remain in spiritual darkness until you have found

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the light which emanates from Me directly and fills everyone who merelyopens his heart and accepts what I either directly or indirectly aim to impartto him. But he must want to know the truth from the bottom of his heart,then he will receive it and also completely understand what is offered tohim from the spiritual kingdom. I cannot do anything else but convey MyWord to you directly, which is purest truth. Nevertheless, you are at liberto accept it or to acquire different spiritual knowledge which can appealto you as well but which will always remain a deceptive light that has noeffect on your soul. But as soon as you turn to Me with the serious requestto illuminate your spirit and to give you the correct discernment betweenright and wrong .... you will not appeal to Me in vain, for I protect everyonefrom error who sincerely desires the truth but neither will I hinder Myadversary, who will do everything in his power to confuse your thinkingby presenting you with spiritual knowledge which is contradictory to thetruth .... For he will fight the truth until the end, but until the end I, too, willsend you the light which will strengthen your faith and make you blissfullyhappy ....

Amen

Spreading the truth

BD 2247 received 01.03.1942

Recognising the truth is a du to advocate it ....

In a world of scorners and blasphemers the truth will hardly be able toestablish itself, for they negate everything of a divine nature and thereforealso the truth which comes from God. But every person who knows thetruth, who thus recognises it, is nevertheless du bound to advocate it, eventowards those who always want to fight against the truth. To deviate fromthe truth with them would be the same as complying with the adversaryof truth. e truth will always be fought, for it comes from above ....however, materialistically minded people only want to acknowledge thatwhich comes from below, from the world, and that will always contradictthe truth. If the truth is to be spread on earth its advocate may by nomeans love the world, nor may he fear people who want to prevent him

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from spreading the truth, instead, by completely renouncing all earthlyadvantages, he must rather be willing to sacrifice his life than to withholdthe truth or speak contrary to his conviction. is requirement is indeednot an easy one to comply with; a er all, a person's physical life is still toovaluable as to give it up for the sake of a truth which is not desired by fellowhuman beings and is more likely to be rejected. And yet it is expected byGod as soon as He has deemed people worthy to receive the truth fromHim. Recognising the pure truth is also a commitment to pass it on and toinform an uninformed person of God's activi . And if people treat this giwith hostili the human being must not become intimidated and speakfearfully or keep silent, instead, he should even fearlessly stand up for thetruth where the ruling power demands silence. It is, a er all, God Himselfhe advocates .... And the informed person should never deny God which,however, he would do were he to divert from the truth, that is, were heto say something against better knowledge which does not correspond totruth or unquestioningly allows untruth to be spread when he recognisesit as such. As soon as the human being denies God he becomes weak,on the other hand, if he endorses the truth, the flow of strength to standfirm against every hostile argument will come to him. And he will remainvictorious over the scorners and blasphemers who only favour lies and willtherefore always fight the truth ....

Amen

BD 5808 received 19.11.1953

Du of distribution ....Warning of unfamiliar knowledge ....

Nothing shall prevent you from supporting the truth you receive fromMe Myself. And that which was not given to you by Me Myself shouldnot become the subject of your conversations; you cannot convincinglyadvocate what I have not given you and only convinced speeches aresuccessful and can result in blessings. e knowledge is inexhaustible ....yet for your earthly life you may only receive information you can makethe most of .... And this is the knowledge I convey to you .... always inline with your thoughts and your soul's maturi . I merely want you to live

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a right and appropriate way of life, hence I inform you of your task onearth and explain the reasons for this task in life. But you should knowthat you are bound creatures which, however, can release themselves fromtheir bondage of their own free will .... So in order that you strive for andaccomplish this release, I provide you with guidelines for your way of life.Your sense of responsibili needs to be aroused so that it will subsequentlydetermine your thoughts and actions .... And, to this end, I truly provideyou with comprehensive explanations .... Yet it will only ever be partialknowledge compared to the absolute realisation possessed by the maturedsoul of a light being in the kingdom of the beyond. Nevertheless, theinformation I give you encompasses all areas worth knowing, so that youare, in a manner of speaking, completely informed .... and always able tooffer an explanation if you are approached for one by other people .... Evenso, it would be unwise of you to indiscriminately impart everything youreceived from Me to fellow human beings who are not mature enoughas yet and therefore won't understand it .... You can only ever distributewhat is needed by another person .... but this in absolute truth, becauseyou offered your service to Me, and service to Me only ever consists ofdistributing the truth, because any error has far-reaching consequences ....

e knowledge I impart to you first enlightens yourselves, so that you willindeed be able to distinguish whether the other person lives in truth orin error .... So if you discover misconceptions, you should oppose themwith the truth because you are entitled to do so, because you are instructedby Me Myself and you can truly only receive truth from Me .... Receivingthe truth commits you to passing it on .... this has to be said time a ertime .... erefore, you can confidently pass on anything you understand,but do not speak about spiritual knowledge you do not understand asyet .... nor allow fellow human beings to instruct you about something IMyself withheld from you .... Hold on to My Word at all times and keepyour ears closed to external teachings .... For if I have not informed you ofthese, I do not consider this knowledge to be of benefit for you .... I willanswer your every question, especially if the knowledge is useful to workfor Me again. But under no circumstances should you endorse your ownthoughts as truth as long as they are not confirmed through My spirit ....And this is the case if you allow fellow human beings to influence you into

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accepting and advocating their mental knowledge .... I place the feelingfor truth and error into My light bearers'heart and they should always payattention to their feelings .... they should always earnestly desire the truthand only endeavour to serve the truth, then they will also serve Me andtheir thoughts will remain free from error, they will be suitable servants forMe and work successfully for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

BD 8534 received 19.06.1963

Holding on to misguided spiritual knowledge ....Desire for truth ....

It remains an impossible venture to convey the truth to people who believethat they already possess it, for they are unapproachable and don't acceptanything, no matter how appealing it is offered to them .... ey stubbornlyhold on to the spiritual knowledge in their possession without consideringwhether it can lay claim to truthfulness. And the longer such spiritualknowledge continues to exist among the human race the harder it is toeradicate it, the darkness is so immense that no ray of light can penetrate it.... But since people deem themselves in possession of the truth, they willnot appeal to Me Myself for truth either; consequently, it is not possible toconvey truthful knowledge to them. And even if people debate the issueof truth and untruth at times, they only ever merely use their intellectand will therefore never reach the goal of recognising error and untruthcorrectly. e concept of the `working of the spirit'in the human being isalso incomprehensible to them. ey only ever abide by the knowledgethey accepted by way of education, which they believe to be true, and donot allow anything else to shake this belief .... And yet they are profoundlymistaken and don't realise it as a result of their spiritual darkness ....Imparting the pure truth to such a person will remain unsuccessful until amessenger of My Word succeeds in shaking this person's firm conviction,until he succeeds in clearly exposing the truth and in arousing the person'sdoubt so that he will dwell on it and thus there is a chance that his thinkingmight become enlightened. Even then, this will only be possible if a personlives a life of love .... But since especially people living in error prioritise

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unimportant, humanly decreed commandments while the commandmentsof love are o en set aside or are merely marginally taken notice of, theylack the love which would grant them spiritual enlightenment .... And thusonly a person's degree of love is decisive as to whether and to what extenthe is receptive when purest truth is given to him .... Only a person who iswilling to love will therefore feel affected by and be receptive for the truth,and only a person willing to love will accept My direct revelations andrevise his present thoughts. In that case it will be a significant gain, for hewill also advocate the truth wherever possible. Yet on the whole, all effortsof liberating people from erroneous thinking will be in vain, they will beunwilling to exchange it for the pure truth, they will resist the light and becontent with deceptive light, which merely reduces their eyesight so thatthey are no longer able to recognise true light.

However, the truth does not establish itself forcibly, nevertheless, every-thing will be done to make it accessible to people, but where the resistancecannot be broken it will remain dark, because the people themselves offerresistance, which cannot be broken by force. And neither will large cam-paigns succeed in changing people's thoughts, for every human being isresponsible for himself, and regardless of what a person's awakened spirittries to explain, he will only ever be accepted where the ground has beenprepared by a life of love, where the preconditions are in place for clear andcorrect thinking, for the recognition of truth. erefore the error cannotbe systematically eradicated either, every individual person must come toterms with it by wanting to know the truth. As long as this will, the desirefor truth, is not present, every effort to teach people otherwise will be futile.... One can only ever try to motivate people to live a life of love, to explainto them the significance of love, that love is the only possibili for attainingbeatitude and that all other actions and traditions won't benefit the soulin the slightest if love has not been kindled in a person. And if a persontakes this message of love to heart and makes an effort to perform selflessdeeds of love, much will have been achieved already. en it will no longerbe hopeless that he will think clearly, for love will ignite a light in him, itwill awaken the spiritual spark to life and this will successfully influencethe person from within .... He will doubt, question and also receive ananswer as soon as he genuinely desires it. Nevertheless, a revival will only

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ever gradually take place, because people are already too engulfed by thedarkness of night and they lack the will to reach the light. e convictionof knowing the truth is the most effective poison the adversary could haveadministered to people .... And yet, people who want to escape his influ-ence are not hopelessly lost .... However, they have free will and thereforethey can only ever be preached love and, depending on their fulfilment ofthe divine commandments of love, their spiritual state will change as well.... ey will be able to step out of the darkness of night into the light ofday, they will realise the truth and will subsequently also want to releasethemselves from error, and My strength and grace will always help them toaccept the truth ....

Amen

BD 8842 received 21.08.1964

Study does not guarantee spiritual knowledge ....

It is a broad field which is opened up to you through My Word from above.You are penetrating unfamiliar territory, you receive vast and extensiveknowledge and can extraordinarily enrich yourselves with spiritual knowl-edge. Yet this also obliges you to pass it on, for the spiritual knowledgeshall brightly shine wherever there are receptive hearts. For that whichyou receive is truth, even if it will time and again cause offence with thosewho value their intellect more than spiritual transmissions. However, aslong as people are incapable of liberating themselves from traditionally-adopted spiritual information they will not be able to recognise the puretruth either. For whatever is gained by study is dead knowledge if the spiritof people acquiring such knowledge is not awakened. And therefore youwill experience the biggest rejection where only the intellect was involved,where I Myself was unable to speak, because I speak to the human being'sspirit which maintains the bond with the eternal Father-Spirit. You willonly rarely meet with understanding there but that should not stop youfrom speaking on behalf of the only truth, for no human being will beable to disprove it because I Myself convey this truth to earth and no-onewill actually be able to contest My arguments. e fact that people inter-pret passages of the bible at their own discretion only reveals their error

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consistently more clearly, they just don't want to admit to it due to theiryears of study. Yet of what use is this without the awakening of the spirit.And how much misconception has it already achieved .... And your taskis to refute it, to expose all error and offer people the plain truth whichthey then are indeed more likely to accept than spiritual knowledge whichcan lay claim to `truth'. Hence, whatever you undertake in order to conveythe information from above to people has My blessing and will certainlyachieve its purpose, for many people object to the distorted doctrine andwill be happy to have found an agreeable explanation.

Yet people who persist in holding on to the knowledge they gained throughstudy will become your enemies, precisely because they lack an awakenedspirit. Nevertheless, don't let it disturb you for you are working on Myinstructions .... You proclaim the truth which alone originates from Me ....and you will truly surpass their knowledge, for you will be able to explainall those things which preceded the creation of the world and of the humanbeing .... And this is really very significant, and you cannot be disproved.

ey can only reject it as implausible but they will be unable to offer a betterexplanation and reason for their existence on this earth. ey will have toadmit that they did not learn anything about this even through study ....but it was explained to people by Me Myself. You humans can't possiblyimagine that you .... who are highly educated .... are more privilegedthan people who are less intelligent when it concerns the achievement ofmaturi of soul .... You cannot possibly depend the `maturi of soul'onyour sharpness of intellect just because you were able to `study'.... if youdon't awaken your spirit first, in which case, however, it would have pointedthe error out to you. On the other hand, an uneducated mind can achievespiritual awakening because it only requires love and this has to be put intopractice in order to awaken the spirit to life. And anyone who lives this lovecannot agree with misguided teachings .... He will know precisely whereerror has crept in and will wholeheartedly support the eradication of thesemisguided teachings. Whether you belong to this or that school of thought.... unless you first come spiritually alive your knowledge will remain deadknowledge which cannot emanate strength to the listeners .... is has tobe said to all of those who reject My revelations on the basis of their worldlyknowledge, which I cannot call otherwise because it was gained by way of

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study but which does not guarantee truth, which can only be obtained fromMe .... from the primary source of truth ....

Amen

BD 6676 received 24.10.1956

`Test all things and keep what is good ....'

Test all things and keep what is good .... I say this to those who are inclinedto doubt, who don't possess the abili to make correct judgments and areapprehensive about accepting spiritual knowledge which is offered to themin an unusual way. Accept it with a completely open mind, and then askMe for enlightenment of spirit and reflect on what you have received ....And, for the time being, ignore what seems unacceptable to you becauseyou are at present unable to understand it, and enjoy what, a er seriousexamination, is credible to you .... I don't expect you to have blind faith,I expect you to test the spiritual knowledge which is made accessible toyou; you are meant to think about it, and it is better you reject what seemsincomprehensible to you than accept everything unreservedly, for if youhave not formed an opinion about such mental concepts they will not be ofbenefit to you .... But if you are serious and want the pure truth, then youwill also clearly recognise the truth if My messengers offer you spiritualknowledge which has originated from Me. For this Word contains thestrength to give life .... providing, however, that life is being aspired to.

Test all things and keep what is good .... Are these Words not contradictingthe imposition of believing something without thinking about it? A er all,I Myself leave it up to you what to believe when I Am asking you to keep`what is good'.... I leave it up to you because I don't demand blind faith fromyou humans. But why do you, who demand that `thinking about religiousdoctrines'must be avoided, stop people from examining .... Are you notacting against My will? And are you also aware of the consequences suchcompulsion of faith will have on people? Time and again I emphasise thefreedom of will, time and again I bring the individual person's responsibilifor his decision of will to the fore, time and again I caution against spiritualcompulsion and explain to you what really matters in earthly life ....

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And the Scripture, too, is giving you the evidence with these Words `Testall things and keep what is good ....', which should make every persongenuinely wanting to fulfil My will suspicious that they don't coincide withthe ecclesiastical laws and make him think .... A er all, whose Word, whoseteachings, are more credible? And you cannot imply any other meaningto these My Words but that you should form an opinion about everyreligious dogma. You are supposed to form an opinion of it, regardless ofwho presents spiritual knowledge to you, for even the pure truth comingfrom Me, which is conveyed to you directly from above, may be scrutinisedby you, and I will not condemn you if you think that you cannot accepteverything without hesitation .... You should only always seek advice fromMe and I will give you the understanding of what you need for the maturiof your souls .... And if you still have a low degree of maturi , you will notbe able to understand everything, but you yourselves determine what youare prepared to accept .... Test all things and keep what is good .... For bydoing so you prove the sinceri of your attitude and your desire for truth.But anyone who accepts something without checking it is demonstratinghis indifference, and he will never move within the truth either, becauseit is irrelevant to him. Yet this kind of attitude should never be promotedby a responsible person, people should be encouraged and not stopped toreflect on spiritual knowledge, for only then will it be beneficial and helpthe human being attain maturi of soul, since free will is being employedand its decision alone is important ....

Amen

Who was Bertha Dudde?

Bertha Dudde was born on 1. April 1891, as the second oldest daughterof a painter, in Liegnitz, Silesia. She became a dressmaker and began toreceive pronouncements from God through the `Inner Word'on 15. June1937.

“In a clear dream I was moved to write down my thoughts a er devoutprayer. Understandably this o en gave way to doubt and inner conflictsuntil I was convinced that I was, myself, by no means the initiator of theseexquisitely gracious words; but instead it was the spirit within me, in other

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words, the love of the Heavenly Father was obviously responsible for themand introduced me to the truth”.

“I was given knowledge of the spiritual world which far exceeded myelementary school education. I received and receive this knowledge as adictation in a state of complete consciousness; I write down everything I amtold in shorthand, in order to then transfer it word for word to clean copy.

e procedure does not take place in a state of compulsion, for example ina state of trance or ecstasy, but in an absolutely level-headed frame of mind.However, I have to want it to happen and then I can receive these dictationsvoluntarily; they are neither bound by time nor place.

“Now I only have one wish, which is to be able to make these gi s of graceaccessible to many more people and in accordance with the will of GodHimself to be allowed to do much more work in His vineyard.”

(Quotations from an autobiography from 1959).

Bertha Dudde died on 18. September 1965 in Leverkusen, Germany.

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